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TO   AMEND   ";FE    A*^^"^ 


ENTITLED  "AN  ACT  TO  REDUCE  THE  LAW 


mCOEPOEATING  THE  CITY  0?  CHICAGO 


AND  THE  SEVERAL  ACTS  AMENDATORY  THEREOF, 


XTO    ONE    ACT,    AND    TO    AMEND    THE    SAME. 


APPROVED  FEBRUARY  U,  1851  ;" 


ORDINANCES  OF  THE  COMMON  COUNCIL, 


PASSED  FROM  SEPTEMBER  22,  1856,  TO  APRIL  5,  1858.^ 


CHICAGO: 

DAILY  PRESS  BOOK  AM)  JOB  STEAM  PRINT,  43  CLARK  STREET. 


1858. 


DEACCES3iOMED  BY 

CHICAGO  HlSTOi^lCAL  SOCIETY 

ERINTED  COLLECTIONS. 


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CITY    CHARTER. 


AN  ACT 


To  amend  the  act  entitled  '■'■An  act  to  reduce  the  La%a  incoTporating 
the  City  of  Chicago^  and  the  several  Acts  amendatory  thereof 
into  one  act,  and  to  amend  the  same,''''  approved  February  14, 
1851. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  hy  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly  :  The  Common  Council  shall, 
before  the  next  annual  election,  divide  the  wards  of  said  city  into 
so  many  and  such  convenient  election  districts,  as  to  the  said 
Common  Council  shall  seem  proper,  and  to  appoint  places  for 
holding  elections  therein,  and  appoint  the  board  of  inspectors 
therefor  as  now  provided  by  the  law ;  and  for  this  purpose  they 
are  hereby  authorized  to  appoint  three  additional  inspectors  of 
election  for  each  election  district  so  created,  whose  qualifications 
and  duties  shall  be  as  now  prescribed  by  the  City  Charter. 

Sec.  2.  All  ordinances,  petitions  and  commixnications  to  the 
Common  Council  shall,  unless  by  unanimous  consent,  be  referred 
to  appropriate  committees,  and  only  acted  on  by  the  Council  at 
a  subsequent  meeting  on  the  report  of  the  committee  having  the 
same  in  charge ;  and  any  report  of  a  committee  of  the  Council 
shall  be  deferred  to  the  next  regular  meeting  of  the  same,  and  the 
publication  of  the  said  report  in  the  corporation  paper  may  be 
required,  by  the  request  of  any  two  aldermen  present. 

Sec.  3.  Every  act,  ordinatnce  or  resolution,  passed  by  the  Com- 
mon Council,  before  it  shall  take  efi'ect,  shall  be  presented,  duly 
certified  by  the  city  clerk,  to  the  mayor  fo^-  his  approbation.  If 
he  approve,  he  shall  sign  it,  if  not  he  shall  return  it  with  his 
objections  in  writing  to  said  Common  Council,  who  shall  enter 
said  objections  upon  their    record  and  proceed  to  reconsider  it; 

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TEEASUEY   DEPAETMENT. 


and  if,  after  such  reconsideration,  two-thirds  of  all  the  members 
elected  shall  agree  to  pass  the  same,  it  shall  take  effect  as  an  act  or 
law  of  the  corporation. 

!Sec.  4.  If  the  mayor  shall  not  return  any  act,  ordinance  or 
resolution  so  presented  to  him,  within  five  days,  it  shall  take  effect 
in  the  same  manner  as  if  he  had   signed  it. 

Sec.  5.  No  contracts  shall  be  hereafter  made  by  the  Common 
Council  or  any  committee  or  member  thereof,  and  no  expense 
shall  be  incurred  by  any  of  the  officers  or  departments  of  said  city 
government,  whether  the  object  of  expenditure  shall  have  been 
ordered  by  the  Common  Council  or  not,  unless  an  appropriation 
shall  have  been  previously  made  concerning  such  expense.  The 
making  of  contracts  and  siiperintendence  of  all  public  works 
undertaken  at  the  expense  of  said  city,  shall  be  committed  by  law 
or  ordinance  of  the  corporation  to  some  proper  officer  or  depart- 
ment, under  proper  rules  and  regulations  preventive  of  fraud  or 
collusion  therein.  And  no  member  of  the  Common  Council,  head 
of  a  department,  clerk,  city  officers,  assistant  or  employe  in  any 
department  of  said  city,  shall  be  directly  or  indirectly  interested 
in  any  contract,  work  or  business,  or  the  sale  of  any  article  the 
expense,  price  or  consideration  of  which  is  paid  from  the  city 
treasury,  under  the  penalty  of  his  immediate  removal  from  office. 

Sec.  6.  All  officers  of  the  city  whose  election  by  the  people  is 
not  provided  for  in  this  act,  or  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  amend- 
ment, shall,  after  the  next  annual  election,  be  appointed  by  the 
mayor  of  said  city,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 
Common  Council ;  any  provision  of  law  in  relation  to  the  appoint- 
ment or  election  of  such  officers,  now  in  force,  providing  for  such 
appointment  or  election  in  any  other  manner,  being  hereby 
expressly  repealed. 


TREASURY  DEPARTMENT. 

Sec.  7.  There  shall  be  after  the  next  annual  election,  and  there 
is  hereby  established  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  an  executive  depart- 
ment of  the  municipal  government  of  said  city,  to  be  known  and 
styled  the    "  Treasury  Department,"  which  shall  embrace  a  city 


TEEASUEY  DEPAETMENT. 


comptroller,  the  city  treasurer  and  the  city  collector  or  collectors, 
and  all  or  any  receivers  of  the  city  revenues  which  are  now  or  may 
be  appointed  by  law,  and  all  such  clerks  and  assistants,  including 
an  auditor,  as  the  Common  Council  may,  by  ordinance,  see  fit  to 
prescribe  and  establish. 

Sec.  8.  The  said  treasury  department  shall  have  control  of  all 
the  fiscal  concerns  of  the  said  corporation,  and  shall  prescribe  the 
forms  of  keeping  and  rendering  all  city  accounts  whatever,  and  all 
accounts  rendered  to  or  kept  in  the  several  departments  of  the  city 
government,  shall  be  subject  to  the  revision  and  inspection  of  the 
officers  of  this  department.  It  shall  settle  and  adjust  all  claims 
whatever  for  the  corporation  or  against  them,  and  all  accounts 
whatsoever  in  which  the  corporation. is  concerned  either  as  debtor 
or  creditor. 

Sec.  9.  There  shall,  after  the  next  annual  election  in  said  city, 
be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 
Common  Council,  some  discreet  and  able  accountant  to  be  styled 
the  "  City  Comptroller,"  who  shall  be  chief  of  said  treasury  depart- 
ment and  hold  his  office  until  removed  or  a  successor  be  appointed, 
who  shall  receive  such  compensation  for  his  services  as  may  be 
established  by  law,  and  who  shall  be  removable  at  all  times  at  the 
pleasure  of  the  mayor  with  the  concurrence  of  the  Common 
Council,  and  he  shall  give  bonds  with  securities  to  the  amount  of 
not  less  than  ten  thousand  dollars,  and  the  amount  of  his  bond  may 
be  increased  to  such  sum  as  may  be  fixed  by  the  Common  Council ; 
said  bond  to  be  approved  by  the  mayor  and  Common  Council,  and 
filed  in  the  city  clerk's  office  and  entered  on  record.  He  shall  also 
be  sworn  the  same  as  other  officers  to  the  faithful  discharge  of  the 
duties  of  his  office. 

Sec.  10.  The  comptroller  shall,  immediately  after  his  appoint- 
ment, open  and  keep  in  a  neat,  methodical  manner,  a  complete  set 
of  books,  under  the  direction  of  the  mayor  and  finance  committee, 
wherein  shall  be  stated,  among  other  things,  the  appropriations  of 
the  year  for  each  distinct  object  and  branch  of  expenditure,  and 
also  the  receipts  from  each  and  every  source  of  revenue  so  far  as 
he  can  ascertain  the  same.  Said  books  and  all  papers,  vouchers, 
contracts,  bonds,  receipts  and  other  things  kept  in  said  office  shall 
be  subject  to  the  examination  of  the  mayor,  the  members  of  the 
Common  Council  or  any  committee  or  committees  thereof. 


TEEASUKY   DEPAETMEl^T. 


Sec,  11.  The  Comptroller  shall  be  charged  with  and  shall 
exercise  a  general  supervision  over,  all  the  officers  of  the  city- 
charged  in  any  manner  with  the  receipt,  collection  or  disbursement 
of  the  city  revenues,  and  the  collection  and  return  of  such  revenues 
into  the  city  treasury.  He  shall  be  the  fiscal  agent  of  said  city, 
and  as  such  shall  have  charge  of  all  deeds,  mortgages,  contracts, 
judgments,,  notes,  bonds,  debts,  choses  in  action,  belonging  to  said 
city,  and  shall  possess  and  carefully  preserve  all  assessment  and  tax 
warrants,  and  the  returns  thereof  made  by  any  collector  or  receiver 
of  taxes  and  assessments,  and  all  leases  of  markets,  wharfing  privi- 
leges and  other  public  property  of  said  city.  He  shall  also  have 
supervision  over  the  city  debts,  contracts,  bonds,  obligations,  loans 
and  liabilities  of  the  city,  the  payment  of  interest,  and  over  all  the 
proj^erty  of  the  city  and  the  sale  or  the  disposition  thereof;  over 
all  legal  or  other  proceedings  in  which  the  interests  of  the  city  are 
involved,  and  with  the  approval  of  the  mayor  to  institute  or  dis- 
continue such  proceedings,  and  to  employ  additional  counsel,  where 
he  thinks  the  city  interests  require  it,  and  generally  in  subordina- 
tion to  the  mayor  and  Common  Council,  to  exercise  such  super- 
vision over  all  interests  of  said  city,  as  in  any  manner  may  concern 
or  relate  to  the  city  finances,  revenues  and  property. 

Sec.  12.  It  shall  be  the  comptroller's  duty  to  examine,  adjust 
and  audit  all  accounts,  claims  and  demands  for  or  against  the  city ; 
and  no  money  shall,  after  his  appointment  as  aforesaid,  be  drawn 
from  the  treasury,  or  paid  by  the  city  to  any  person  or  persons, 
unless  the  balance  due  or  payable  be  first  settled  and  adjusted  by 
the  said  comptroller  ;  and  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  the  true 
state  of  any  balance  or  balances  so  due,  he  shall  have  and  he  is 
hereby  clothed  with  full  power  and  authority  to  administer  an  oath 
or  oaths  to  the  claimant  or  claimants,  or  any  other  person  or  per- 
sons whom  he  may  think  proper  to  examine  as  to  any  fact,  matter 
or  thing  concerning  the  correctness  of  any  account,  claim  or 
demand  presented,  and  the  person  so  sworn  shall,  if  he  swear 
falsely,  be  deemed  guilty  of  willful  and  corrupt  perjury,  and  be 
subject  to  punishment  accordingly,  the  same  as  in  all  other  cases. 

Sec.  13.  All  money  found  to  be  due  and  payable  by  the  comp- 
troller to  any  person  or  persons,  shall  be  drawn  for  by  said 
comptroller  by  warrant  on  the  treasurer,  which  shall  be  coun- 
tersigned by  the  mayor,  stating  therein  the  particular  fund  or 
appropriation  to  which  the  same  is  chargeable  and  the  person  to 


TREASURY   DEPARTMENT. 


whom  payable ;  but  if  said  comptroller  should,  upon  any  examina- 
tion of  any  account  as  aforesaid,  still  doubt  as  to  its  correctness, 
he  shall  submit  the  same  to  the  mayor  and  finance  committee  for 
then"  decision  thereon,  which  decision  shall  be  binding  upon  the 
city  and  filed  among  his  other  vouchers  in  the  comptroller's  office; 
and  after  the  appointment  of  said  comptroller  no  money  shall  be 
drawn  from  the  treasury,  except  on  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller 
drawn  as  aforesaid. 

Sec.  14.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  comptroller  as  nearly  as 
may  be,  to  charge  all  ofiicers  in  the  receipt  of  revenues  or  moneys 
of  the  city,  with  the  whole  amount  from  time  to  time  of  such 
receijits ;  and  in  regard  to  all  tax  and  assessment  warrants  for  the 
collection  of  revenue,  and  all  licenses  or  permits  whatever,  issued 
or  granted  under  any  ordinance  or  law  of  the  city  by  virtue  of 
which  money  is  receivable  or  to  be  received  or  paid  into  the  city 
treasury,  from  or  by  any  person  or  persons,  he  shall  countersign 
the  same,  charging  the  proper  officer  the  amount  collectable 
thereon;  and  no  tax  or  assessment  warrant,  license  or  other 
permit  issued  or  granted  imder  which  the  collection  of  any  money 
for  said  city  may  be  authorized  shall  be  of  any  validity  or  force 
whatever,  unless  countersigned  by  said  comptroller.  He  shall 
also  require  of  all  officers  in  receipt  of  city  moneys  that  they  shall 
submit  reports  thereof  with  vouchers  and  receipts  of  payment 
therefor,  into  the  city  treasury  weekly  or  monthly,  or  as  often  as 
he  shall  see  fit  to  require  the  same  by  any  regulation  which  he 
may  adopt,  and  if  any  such  officer  shaU  neglect  to  make  an  adjust- 
ment of  his  accounts  when  so  required  as  aforesaid,  and  to  pay 
over  such  moneys  so  received,  it  shall  then  be  the  duty  of  the  said 
comptroller  to  issue  a  notice  in  writing,  directed  to  such  officer 
and  his  securities,  requirmg  him  or  them  within  ten  days  to  make 
settlement  of  his  said  accounts  with  the  comptroller,  and  to  pay 
over  the  balance  of  moneys  found  to  be  due  and  in  his  hands 
belonging  to  said  city,  according  to  the  books  of  said  comptroller  ; 
and  in  case  of  the  refusal  or  neglect  of  such  officer  to  adjust  his 
said  accounts,  or  pay  over  said  balance  to  the  treasury  as  required, 
it  shall  then  be  the  duty  of  the  said  comptroller  to  make  report  of 
the  delinquency  of  such  officer  to  the  mayor,  who  shall  at  once 
siispend  him  from  office;  and  the  mayor  of  said  city  is  hereby 
authorized,  upon  the  happening  of  such  event,  to  declare  said  office 
vacant  with  the   concurrence  of  the  Common   Council,  and  to 


TEEASUEY    DEPAETMENT. 


nominate  a  successor,  in  case  of  removal,  ^^ho  shall  be  appointed 
by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Common  Council  to  fill 
said  office  for  the  imexpired  term  of  the  officer  so  dismissed  as 
aforesaid. 

Sec.  15.  The  comptroller  shall  make  out  an  annual  statement 
for  publication,  in  the  month  of  February  in  each  year,  two  weeks 
at  least  before  the  annual  election,  giving  a  full  and  detailed  state- 
ment of  all  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  money  during  the  year 
ending  on  the  first  day  of  said  month.  The  said  statement  shall 
also  detail  the  liabilities  and  resources  of  said  city,  the  condition 
of  all  unexpended  appropriations  and  contracts  unfulfilled,  and  the 
balances  of  money  then  remaining  in  the  treasury,  with  all  sums 
due  and  outstanding;  the  names  of  all  persons  who  may  have 
become  defaulters  of  the  city,  and  the  amount  in  their  hands  unac- 
counted for,  and  all  other  things  necessary  to  exhibit  the  true 
financial  condition  of  the  city ;  which  statement,  when  examined 
and  approved  by  the  finance  committee,  shall  be  published  by  him 
in  the  corporation  newspaper;  at  least  one  week  before  the  annual 
election. 

Sec.  16.  The  said  comptroller  shall,  also,  in  the  month  of  April 
in  each  year,  before  the  annual  appropriations  are  made  by  the 
Common  Council,  submit  to  the  same  a  report  of  the  estimates 
necessary,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  city 
government  during  the  ensuing  fiscal  year,  commencing  on  the 
first  day  of  the  said  month  of  April ;  he  shall,  in  said  report,  class 
the  difl'erent  objects  and  branches  of  said  city  expenditure,  giving, 
as  nearly  as  may  be,  the  amount  required  for  each ;  and  for  this 
purpose  he  is  authorized  to  require  of  all  city  officers  and  heads  of 
departments,  their  statements  of  the  condition  and  expense  of  their 
respective  departments  and  offices,  with  any  proposed  improve- 
ment and  the  probable  expense  thereof,  of  contracts  already  made 
and  unfinished,  and  the  amount  of  any  unexpended  appropriations 
of  the  preceding  year.  He  shall  also,  in  such  report,  show  the 
aggregate  income  of  the  preceding  fiscal  year  from  all  sources ; 
the  amount  of  liabilities  outstanding  upon  which  interest  is  to  be 
paid,  and  of  bonds  and  city  debts  payable  during  the  year,  when 
due,  and  where  payable,  so  that  the  Common  Council  may  fully 
understand  the  money  exigencies  and  demands  of  the  city  for  the 
ensuing  year  ;  but  in  no  event  shall  the  Common  Council  make  the 
current  appropriations  of  any  year  exceed  in  amount  the  income 


DUTIES    OF   THE    TEEASUKER. 


of  the  city  during  the  preceding  year  as  ascertained  by  the  comp- 
troller in  his  said  statement,  unless  in  the  payment  of  interest  on 
the  public  debts  of  the  city  they  shall  provide  according  to  law  by 
taxation  or  otherwise,  some  additional  fund  out  of  which  such 
excess  of  appropriations  may  be  made  to  meet  such  indebtedness. 

Sec.  lY.  The  comptroller  shall  also  keep  in  his  office  a  correct 
list  of  all  local  and  piiblic  improvements  ordered  by  the  Common 
Council  and  under  contract  by  the  city,  copies  of  which  shall  be 
furnished  him  by  the  city  clerk,  and  all  contracts  and  estimates 
made  by  the  Common  Council  or  any  officer  of  said  city  in  relation 
to  such  improvements,  for  any  work  contracted  or  undertaken, 
done  or  finished,  shall  be  filed  in  said  comptroller's  office  ;  and  no 
contract  made,  shall  be  of  an  validity,  unless  countersigned  by 
said  comptroller. 


DUTIES  OF  THE  TKEASURER. 

Sec.  18.  The  city  treasurer  shall,  hereafter,  keep  his  office  in 
some  place  to  be  designated  by  the  Common  Council,  approj)i'iated 
to  the  keeping  of  such  office,  in  the  treasury  department.  He  shall 
keep  his  books  and  accounts  in  such  manner  as  the  city  comptroller 
or  Common  Council  may  prescribe,  and  such  books  and  accounts 
shall  be  always  subject  to  the  inspection  of  said  comptroller  and 
the  finance  committee. 

Sec.  19.  All  warrants  drawn  upon  the  treasurer  must  be  signed, 
by  the  comptroller  and  countersigned  by  the  mayor,  stating  therein 
the  particular  fund  or  appropriation  to  which  the  same  is  charge- 
able, and  the  person  to  whom  payable,  and  no  money  shall  be 
otherwise  paid  than  upon  such  warrants  so  drawn. 

Sec.  20.  He  shall  keep  a  separate  account  of  each  fund  or  appro- 
priation, and  the  debts  and  credits  belonging  thereto. 

Sec.  21.  He  shall  give  every  person  paying  money  into  the  city 
Treasury  a  duplicate  receipt  therefor,  specifying  the  date  of  pay- 
ment, iipon  what  account  paid ;  and  he  shall  also  file  copies  of  such 
receipts  with  the  city  Comptroller  at  the  date  of  his  monthly 
reports,  as  herein  provided. 

Sec.  22.  The  Treasurer  shall,  at  the  end  of  each  and  every 
month,  and  oftener  if  required,  render  an  account  to  the  comp- 


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troller,  showing  the  state  of  the  treasury  at  the  date  of  such 
account,  and  the  balance  of  moneys  in  the  treasury.  He  shall  also 
accompany  such  account  with  the  duplicate  of  all  receipts  issued 
by  him  for  moneys  received  into  the  treasury,  together  with  all 
warrants  redeemed  and  paid  by  him,  which  said  receipts  and 
warrants,  with  any  and  all  other  vouchers  held  by  him,  shall  be 
delivered  over  to  the  comptroller,  and  filed  with  his  said  account 
in  the  comj)troller's  office  upon  every  day  of  such  settlement. 

Sec.  23.  The  treasurer  shall  keep  all  moneys  in  his  hands  be- 
longing to  the  city,  in  such  place  or  places  of  deposit  as  the  Com- 
mon Council  may  hereafter  by  ordinance  provide,  order,  establish 
or  direct ;  and  such  moneys  shall  be  kept  distinct  and  separate  from 
his  own  moneys  ;.and  he  is  hereby  expressly  prohibited  from  using, 
either  directly  or  indirectly,  the  corporation  money  or  warrants  in 
his  custody  and  keeping  for  his  own  use  and  benefit,  or  that  of  any 
other  person  or  persons  whomsoever ;  and  any  violation  of  this 
provision  shall  subject  him  to  immediate  removal  from  office  by 
the  mayor,  with  the  concurrence  of  the  Common  Council,  who  are 
hereby  authorized  to  declare  said  office  vacant;  and  the  mayor,  in 
case  of  said  removal,  shall  nominate  a  successor,  who  shall  be  ap- 
pointed to  said  office  upon  the  confirmation  of  the  said  Common 
Council,  and  hold  his  office  for  the  remainder  of  the  unexpired  term 
of  such  officer  so  removed. 

Sec.  24.  The  treasurer  shall  also  report  to  the  Common  Council 
annually,  in  the  month  of  February,  at  least  two  weeks  before  the 
election,  and  oftener  if  required,  a  full  and  detailed  account  of  all 
receipts  and  expenditures,  and  the  state  of  the  treasury.  He  shall 
also  keep  a  register  of  all  warrants  redeemed  and  paid  into  the 
treasury  during  the  year,  describing  such  warrant,  its  date, 
amount,  number,  the  fund  from  which  payable,  and  persons  to  whom 
paid,  specifying  also  the  time  of  receipt  thereof,  and  all  such  war- 
rants shall  be  examined  at  the  time  of  the  making  such  annual 
report  to  the  Common  Council  by  the  finance  committee,  who  shall 
examine  and  compare  the  same  with  the  books  of  the  comptroller, 
and  report  discrepancies,  if  any,  to  the  Common  Council. 


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CITY  COLLECTORS. 

SEOTioif  25.  The  city  collector  hereafter  to  be  elected  by  the 
people,  shall  keep  his  office  in  siich  place  or  places  as  may  be 
designated  and  provided  by  the  Common  Council,  appropriated  to 
the  keeping  of  such  office  in  the  treasury  department,  and  shall 
keep  in  said  office,  besides  his  collection  and  revenue  warrants, 
such  other  books,  vouchers,  records  and  accounts,  as  the  comptrol- 
ler may,  by  regulation  of  the  department,  direct  and  prescribe, 
■which  books  and  records,  with  all  other  papers,  shall  remain  in  and 
pertam  to  said  office,  and  be  handed  over  to  the  successor  or 
successors  of  said  officer. 

Sec.  26.  All  the  city  collector's  papers,  books,  warrants  and 
vouchers,  shall  be  examined  by,  and  the  same  are  hereby  placed 
under  the  supervision  of,  the  treasurer  and  comptroller,  together 
with  the  finance  committee  ;  and  the  said  collector  and  his  assist- 
ants shall,  on  receipt  of  the  same,  pay  overall  moneys  collected  by 
him  of  any  person  or  j^ersons  to  the  city  treasiu-er,  taking  his  re- 
ceipt therefor,  which  said  collector  or  assistant  shall  immediately 
file  in  the  comptroller's  office. 

Sec.  27.  From  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  there  shall  be 
no  special  collectors  of  the  city  revenue  or  assessments,  appomted 
by  the  Common  Council,  other  than  as  assistants  to  the  said  city 
collector,  who  shall  be,  in  all  cases,  principal  in  the  collector's 
bureau  of  the  treasury  department. 

Sec.  28.  The  city  collector  shall  make  report,  in  writing,  to  the 
comptroller  weekly,  or  oftener,  if  recpiired,  of  the  amount  of  all 
moneys  collected  by  him;  the  accoimt  upon  which  collected,  and 
shall  file  with  him  the  vouchers  or  receipts  of  the  treasurer  for  the 
amoimt  so  collected. 

Sec.  29.  The  city  collector  is  hereby  expressly  prohibited  from 
keeping  the  moneys  of  the  city  in  his  hands,  or  that  of  any  person 
or  corporation  to  his  use,  beyond  the  time  prescribed  for  the  pay- 
ment of  the  same  to  the  city  treasurer  ;  and  any  violation  of  this 
provision  shall  subject  him  to  removal  from  office,  in  the  manner 
now  provided  by  law,  and  it  is  hereby  declared  to  be  the  duty  of 
the  mayor,  upon  such  removal  being  made,  to  nominate  and  appoint 
a  successor,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Common  Council. 


12  CITY    COLLECTOKS. 


Each  assistant  collector  shall  be  subject  to  removal  at  the  pleasure 
of  the  finance  committee,  whenever  they  may  deem  the  i^ublic 
interest  to  require  it,  and  their  places  be  filled  as  provided  by  law. 

Sec.  30.  The  city  collector  shall,  on  the  first  day  of  February  of 
each  year,  submit  to  the  Common  Council  and  finance  committee, 
a  statement  of  all  the  moneys  by  him  collected  during  the  year,  and 
the  particular  warrant,  assessment  or  account  upon  which  collect- 
ed, and  the  balance  of  moneys  uncollected  on  the  warrants  in  his 
hands  or  returned  to  the  comptroller,  and  a  copy  of  such  statement 
shall  also  be  filed  with  the  comptroller. 

Sec.  31.  The  finance  committee  and  the  comptroller  shall 
annually  meet  in  the  month  of  February,  and  compare  all  such 
reports  and  statements  as  are  made  by  the  comptrollei-,  treasurer 
and  collector,  and  report  thereon  to  the  Common  Council, 

Sec.  32.  In  the  adjustment  of  the  accounts  of  the  treasurer  and 
collector  with  the  comptroller,  there  shall  be  an  appeal  to  the 
finance  committee,  whose  decision  in  all  matters  of  controvesy 
arising  between  said  ofiicers  in  the  treasury  department  shall  be 
binding,  unless  the  Common  Council  shall  otherwise  direct  and 
provide. 

Sec.  33.  The  comptroller,  city  treasurer  and  city  collector,  shall 
nominate  and,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Common 
Council,  appoint  such  various  assistant  collectors,  clerks  and  sub- 
ordinates, in  their  respective  offices,  as  the  Common  Council  may 
authorize.  Said  subordinates  shall  in  all  cases  be  sworn  to  the 
faithful  discharge  of  their  duties,  as  other  ofiicers. 

Sec.  34.  The  said  comptroller,  collector  and  treasurer,  shall 
perform  such  other  duties,  and  be  subject  to  such  other  rules  and 
regulations,  as  the  Common  Council  may  from  time  to  time  by 
ordinance  provide  and  establish. 

Sec.  35.  The  treasurer  and  city  collector,  and  collectors  and 
all  receivers  of  city  money,  are  hereby  required  to  keep  safely, 
without  loaning  or  using,  all  the  city  or  public  moneys  collected  by 
them,  or  otherwise  at  any  time  placed  in  their  custody  or  disposal, 
till  the  same  is  paid  over  or  directed  by  the  proper  officer,  warrant. 
Jaw,  or  order  of  the  cor]3oration,  to  be  transferred  or  j^aid  out,  and 
to  make  all  payments  and  transfers  promptly  when  thereto  required 


CITY    COLLECTOES.  13 


by  any  law  or  order  of  said  corporation,  or  under  any  regulation 
of  the  comi^troller.  And  if  any  one  of  said  officers,  or  of  those 
connected  with  them,  in  the  collection,  safe  keeping,  disbursing  of 
said  city  revenues,  shall  convert  to  his  or  their  own  use,  in  any  way 
whatever,  or  shall  use  by  way  of  investment  in  any  kind  of  pro- 
perty or  merchandise,  or  shall  loan,  with  or  without  interest,  any 
j)ortion  of  said  city  moneys  entrusted  to  him  or  them  for  safe  keep- 
ing, disbursement,  payment,  transfer,  or  for  any  other  purpose, 
every  such  act  shall  be  deemed  and  adjudged  to  be  an  embezzle- 
ment of  so  much  of  the  said  moneys  as  shall  be  thus  taken,  con- 
verted, invested,  used  or  loaned,  which  is  hereby  declared  a  felony, 
and  any  officer  or  agent  of  said  city,  and  all  persons  advising  or 
participating  in  such  act,  or  being  a  party  thereto,  shall,  upon  con- 
viction before  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction  in  this  state,  be 
sentenced  to  imprisonment  for  a  term  of  not  less  than  six  months 
nor  more  than  ten  years,  in  the  penitentiary  of  this  state  ;  and  also 
be  fined  in  a  sum  equal  to  the  amount  of  the  money  embezzled. 

Sec.  36.  All  returns  and  accounts  made  or  required  to  be  ren- 
dered under  this  act,  by  any  of  the  officers  in  said  treasury  depart- 
ment, shall  be  verified  by  the  oath  of  the  person  rendering  it ;  in 
which  said  oath  it  shall  be  declared  that  said  statement  so  far  as 
he  knows  or  has  reason  to  believe,  is  a  fair,  accurate  and  full  state- 
ment of  all  the  moneys  in  his  hands,  or  which  he  or  any  one  for  him 
has  received  since  his  last  official  account  was  rendered ;  and  that 
he  has  not  directly  or  indirectly  used,  loaned,  invested  or  converted 
to  his  own  use,  or  sufiered  any  one  to  use,  loan,  invest,  or  convert 
to  their  or  his  use,  any  of  the  moneys  receivable  or  received  by 
him ;  but  that  he  has  acted  diligently  and  without  any  collusion  or 
fraud  in  the  collection  of  the  public  moneys  of  said  city,  and  that 
he  hath  rendered  a  true  and  full  account  thereof  in  his  said  state- 
ment; which  oath  shall  be  attached  to  and  filed  Avith  said  accounts 
in  the  proper  office  of  the  comptroller  or  city  clerk,  as  the  case  may 
be;  and  in  case  the  said  statement,  or  any  of  them,  shall  be  false, 
the  said  person  so  making  such  statement  shall  be  deemed  gnilty 
of  willful  and  corrupt  perjury,  and  shall  be  punished  accordingly. 


14  COLLECTION    OF   TAXES    AND    ASSESSMENTS. 


COLLECTION  OF  TAXES  AND  ASSESSMENTS. 

Sec.  SV.  The  annual  assessment  rolls  shall  hereafter  be  returned 
to  the  Common  Council,  who  shall  proceed  in  the  manner  now 
presci'ibed  by  law  to  revise  and  correct  the  same ;  and  when  revised, 
corrected  and  confirmed  by  them,  the  Common  Council  shall  then 
proceed  by  ordinance,  passed  as  in  other  cases,  to  levy  the  annual 
taxes  authorized  by  law. 

Sec.  38.  All  orders  issued  for  the  collection  of  the  annual  taxes, 
and  all  special  warrants  issued  for  the  collection  of  any  special 
assessments  or  tax  authorized  by  law,  shall  be  made  out  in  the 
manner  now  required  by  the  city  charter,  be  countersigned  by  the 
comptroller  and  delivered  to  the  city  collector  on  or  before  the  2d 
Tuesday  of  October,  in  every  year  after  the  passage  of  this  act. 

Sec.  39.  The  collector  shall  forthwith  publish  a  notice  in  the 
corporation  newspaper,  that  such  warrants  are  in  his  hands  for 
collection,  briefly  describing  the  nature  of  ea(!h,  and  requesting  all 
persons  forthwith  to  make  payment  thereof  at  liis  office,  or  that  the 
same  will  be  collected  at  the  cost  and  expense  of  the  persons  liable 
to  the  payment  of  such  taxes  and  assessments  ;  said  notice  to  be 
published  for  thirty  days. 

Sec.  40.  If,  from  any  cause,  the  taxes  and  assessments  charged 
in  said  collection  warrants  are  not  collected  or  paid  on  the  lands 
or  lots  described  in  such  warrants,  on  or  before  the  first  Tuesday 
in  January,  ensuing  the  date  of  said  warrants,  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  collector  to  prepare  and  make  report  thereof  to  some  court 
of  general  jurisdiction  to  beheld  in  Chicago,  at  any  vacation,  special 
or  general  term  thereof,  for  judgment  against  the  lands,  lots  and 
jDarcels  of  land,  for  the  amount  of  taxes,  assessments,  interest  and 
costs  respectively  due  thereon  ;  andhe'shall  give  ten  days'  notice  of 
his  intended  application  before  the  first  day  of  the  saidterm  of  the 
said  court,  briefly  specifying  the  nature  of  the  respective  warrants 
upon  Avhich  such  application  is  to  be  made,  and  requesting  all 
persons  interested  therein  to  attend  at  such  term;  and  the  adver- 
tisement so  published  shall  be  deemed  and  taken  to  be  sufficient 
and  legal  notice,  both  of  the  aforesaid  intended  application  by  the 
collector  to  said  court  for  judgment,  and  a  refusal  and  a  demand  to 
pay  the  said  taxes  and  assessments. 


COLLECTION    OF   TAXES    AND    ASSESSMENTS.  15 

Sec.  41.  The  collector  shall  obtam  a  copy  of  the  said  advertise- 
ment or  advertisements,  together  with  a  certificate  of  the  due  pub- 
lication thereof,  from  the  printer  or  publisher  of  the  newspaper  in 
which  the  same  was  published,  and  shall  file  the  same  with  the  clerk 
of  said  court  at  the  said  term,  together  with  a  copy  of  said  report. 

Sec.  42.  The  clerk  of  said  court,  xipon  the  filing  of  such  report 
or  reports,  and  certificate  of  publication,  by  the  collector,  in  each 
case,  shall  receive  and  record  the  same  in  a  book  kept  for  that 
purpose,  in  which  shall  be  entered  all  judgments,  orders  and  other 
proceedings  of  said  court  in  relation  thereto,  and  the  same  shall  be 
preserved  as  other  records  of  his  ofliice  ;  and  the  said  clerk  shall 
place  the  said  report  or  reports  and  the  certificate  attached  to  each, 
at  the  head  of  the  common  law  docket  for  said  term,  in  the  following 
form  as  nearly  as  may  be,  to- wit : 

City  of  Chicago  vs.  John  Doe  and  others — Suit  for  Taxes. 
Or,  if  it  be  an  assessment  for  some  specified  improvement,  shall 
also  enter  said  repoi-t  or  reports  returned  by  said  collector,  in  sim- 
ilar forms  as  nearly  as-  may  be,  or  as  follows : 

City  of  Chicago  vs.  John  Doe  and  others — Suit  for  assessment  on  warrants  for 
paving street or  the  opening  of street . 

Or  such  other  title  as  will  suflaciently  indicate  the  nature  of  the 
improvement  for  which  the  charge  or  assessment  is  due ;  entering 
a  separate  suit  upon  each  of  said  warrants  upon  w^hich  such  reports 
are  made. 

Sec.  43.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  court  upon  calling  the  docket 
of  said  term,  if  any  defence  be  ofl^ered  by  any  of  the  owners  of  said 
property,  or  any  person  having  a  claim  or  intei'est  therein,  to  hear 
and  determine  the  same  in  a  summary  way,  without  pleadings ; 
and  if  no  defence  be  made  the  said  court  shall  pronounce  judgment 
against  the  said  several  lots,  lands,  pieces  or  parcels  of  land,  as 
described  in  said  collector's  reports;  and  shall  thereupon  direct 
said  clerk  to  make  out  and  issue  an  order  for  the  sale  of  the  same, 
which  said  order  shall  be  in  form  as  nearly  as  may  be  of  that 
prescribed  in  the  twenty-ninth  section  of  an  act,  entitled  an  act 
concerning  the  public  revenue,  approved  February  26th,  1839,  by 
the  general  assembly  of  this  state :  Provided,  that  in  all  such  cases 
where  .a  defence  is  interposed,  the  trial  of  any  issue  or  issues  therein 
shall  have  priority  over  all  other  cases  in  said  court,  and  shall  be 
disposed  of  with  as  little  delay  as  possible  consistently  with  the 


16  COLLECTION"    OF   TAXES    AND    ASSESSMENTS. 

demands  of  public  justice  at  said  term.  But  should  justice  require 
that  for  any  cause  the  suit  as  to  one  or  more  owners  should  be 
delayed  for  more  than  twenty  days,  judgment  shall  then  be  ren- 
dered as  to  the  other  owners  and  lands,  and  process  shall  issue  for 
the  sale  thereof  the  same  as  in  all  other  cases. 

Sec.  44.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  of  such  court  within 
twenty  days  after  such  order  is  granted  as  aforesaid,  to  make  out 
under  the  seal  of  said  court  a  copy  of  said  collector's  report  in  such 
case,  together  with  the  order  of  the  court  thereon  which  shall  con- 
stitute the  process  on  which  all  lands,  lots,  sub-lots,  pieces  and 
parcels  of  land  shall  be  sold  for  the  amount  of  any  taxes,  assess- 
ments, interest  and  costs  so  levied,  assessed  or  charged  upon  them, 
as  provided  in  this  act,  or  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment, 
or  under  any  section  or  provision  hereof,  and  the  said  city  collector 
is  hereby  expressly  authorized  and  empowered  in  like  manner,  as 
sheriffs  may  do,  acting  under  process  offi.  fa.  under  the  laws  of  the 
state  to  make  sale  of  such  lands,  lots,  pieces,  or  parcels  of  land  upon 
twenty  days'  notice,  which,  instead  of  posting,  he  shall  publish  in 
some  newspaper  prmted  in  said  city. 

Sec.  45.  The  said  notice  so  to  be  published  in  each  case  of  a 
judgment  upon  any  special  or  general  collection  warrants,  and 
reports  as  aforesaid,  shall  contain  a  list  of  the  delinquent  lands  and 
town  lots  to  be  sold,  the  names  of  the  owners,  if  known ;  the  amount 
or  taxes,  interests  and  costs,  or  the  amount  of  the  assessments, 
interests  and  costs,  as  the  case  may  be,  due  respectively  thereon, 
and  the  accoiint  upon  which  the  same  is  due;  the  court  which  pro- 
nounced the  judgment,  and  that  the  same  will  be  exposed  to  public 
sale  at  a  time  and  place  to  be  named  in  said  advertisement  by 
said  collector.  The  proceedings  may  be  stopped  at  any  time  upon 
payment  of  said  taxes,  or  assessments,  interests  and  costs  to  said 
collector. 

Sec.  46.  In  all  proceedings  and  advertisements  for  the  collection 
of  such  taxes  and  assessments  and  the  sale  of  lands  therefor,  figures 
may  be  used  to  denote  lots,  sub  lots,  lands  and  blocks,  sections, 
ranges  and  parts  thereof,  the  year  and  the  amounts,  as  now  provided 
by  law  in  like  places. 

Sec.  47.  The  sale  shall  be  conducted  in  the  manner  provided  by 
law  in  like  cases,  and  shall  be  of  the  smallest  portion  of  ground  (to 


COLLECTIONS  OF  TAXES  AND  ASSESSMENTS.     IT 

be  taken  from  the  east  side  of  the  premises)  for  which  any  jDerson 
may  take  the  same  and  pay  the  amount  of  assessments  or  taxes 
thereon,  with  interest  and  costs. 

Sec.  48.  In  all  other  respects  the  same  proceedings  shall  be  had 
as  to  issuing  certificates  of  sale,  the  making  of  deeds,  and  the 
redemption  in  cases  of  sale,  as  are  now  provided  in  the  act  to 
which  this  is  an  amendment,  except  that  all  dujjlicate  certificates 
of  the  sale  of  any  premises  made  by  such  collector,  shall  be  here- 
after filed  by  the  comptroller,  and  redemption  shall  be  made  by 
the  payment  of  the  amount  of  redemption  money  to  the  treasurer, 
and  taking  his  voucher  therefor,  and  filing  the  same  in  the  office  of 
said  comptroller,  who  shall  thereupon  cancel  and  annul  said  certifi- 
cate and  sale  upon  his  records. 

Sec.  49.  The  deeds  made  to  purchasers  shaU  be  -prima  facie 
and  conclusive  evidence  to  the  same  extent  as  to  facts,  and  have 
the  same  conclusive  force  and  efiect  as  to  the  rights  of  purchasers 
at  such  sales,  as  is  now  provided  by  law  in  the  act  to  which  this  is 
an  amendment. 

Sec.  50.  Any  change  made  in  the  incumbent  of  the  ofiice  of  the 
city  collector  during  the  pendency  of  any  such  proceedings  shall 
not  operate  to  afiect  or  delay  the  same,  but  the  successor  or  succes- 
sors in  ofiice  of  such  collector  shall  be  authorized  to  do  all  acts 
necessary  to  complete  such  proceedings  the  same  as  if  his  prede- 
cessor had  continued  in  office.  In  case  of  a  vacancy  occurring  in 
any  such  office,  the  proceedings  shall  be  prosecuted  by  the  city 
comptroller  until  such  vacancy  is  filled  by  election  or  otherwise. 

Sec.  51.  After  the  next  annual  election,  all  sales  of  property  for 
the  non-payment  of  taxes  and  assessments,  for  any  improvement 
of  what  kind  soever,  shall  be  held  at  the  same  time  with  the  general 
sale  of  property  for  non-payment  of  city  taxes  in  each  year,  unless 
in  particular  cases  said  sale  is  stayed  by  examination  or  process  of 
law,  the  intent  hereof  being  that  there  shall  be  but  one  general 
collection  by  sale  of  all  taxes  and  assessments  whatsoever  in  each 
and  every  year,  which  sale  shall  take  place  in  the  manner  herein 
before  provided  and  at  the  same  time  in  each  year. 

Sec.  62.   The  Common  Council  may  direct  all  special  warrants 
for  the  collection  of  any  special  assessments  levied  on  any  property 
for  any  improvement,  to  issue  and  be  delivered  to  the  city  collector 
2 


18  POLICE    COURT. 


forthwith,  who  shall  notify  by  advertisement  all  persons  interested 
to  pay  the  same  immediately ;  but  in  all  cases  were  said  assess- 
ments are  not  paid,  on  or  before  the  day  of  the  filing  of  the  col- 
lector's report  for  judgment  in  any  court  of  general  jurisdiction,  ten 
per  cent,  shall  be  collected  as  additional  costs,  and  be  added  to  and 
collected  with  the  other  assessments  and  expenses  authorized  to 
be  collected  on  the  property  assessed;  and  for  this  purpose  the 
collector  shall  add  to  his  said  report,  on  a  separate  column,  the 
amount  of  such  additional  cost:  Provided^  That  from  and  after 
the  expiration  of  thirty  days'  notice  to  be  published  in  the  corpora- 
tion newspaper  by  the  city  collector  that  he  has  received  such 
special  warrant  for  collection,  he  shall  be  authorized  and  he  is 
hereby  required  to  demand  and  collect  for  the  use  of  said  city  at 
the  rate  often  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  amount  of  every  assess- 
ment made  upon  any  real  estate  within  said  city,  computed  from 
the  day  of  the  date  of  said  warrant  to  the  day  of  the  payment 
thereof. 


POLICE  COURT. 

Sec.  53.  That  after  the  next  municipal  election,  the  Common 
Council  of  said  city  shall  designate  the  two  or  more  justices  of  the 
peace,  now  provided  for  under  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  amend- 
ment, and  who  are  to  have  jurisdiction  in  all  actions  for  the  recovery 
of  any  fine  and  penalty  under  the  laws,  ordinances  and  police  regu- 
lations of  said  city. 

Sec.  54.  The  said  justices  of  the  peace  so  designated  shall  here- 
after constitute  and  be  styled  the  police  court  of  said  city,  and 
said  justices  shall  continue  under  such  designation  to  take  jm-isdic- 
tion  as  justices  of  the  peace  for  one  year,  or  until  their  successors 
be  appointed,  in  all  actions  for  th«  recovery  of  any  fine  or  penalty 
Tinder  the  laws  of  said  city,  and  all  ordinances,  by-laws  or  police 
regulations  thereof;  that  while  so  employed  under  such  designa- 
tion, as  such  justice,  one  of  them  shall  hold  a  session  of  said  police 
court  daily  (Sundays  excepted),  at  the  city  hall,  in  such  place  as 
the  said  Common  Council  may  provide  and  appoint,  untU  the 
business  before  them  or  him  is  disposed  of 

Sec.  55.  The  said  justice  may  be  compensated  by  a  salary,  to 
be  fixed  by  the  Common  Council  to  do  the  business  of  said  police 


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court,  in  lieu  of  all  other  compensation  or  fees  whatever,  accruing 
from  the  business  to  be  disposed  of,  and  the  said  justices  so  desig- 
nated shall  not  enter  upon  their  duties  nor  be  appointed  to  hold 
such  court  as  justices  of  the  peace  aforesaid,  unless  they  first  sign 
and  execute  an  express  relinquishment  in  writing  in  favor  of  the 
city,  of  all  other  fees,  emoluments,  or  compensation  whatever,  than 
what  may  be  provided  by  a  salary  to  be  fixed  as  aforesaid  by  the 
Common  Council  under  this  act,  and  such  express  relinquishment 
shall  be  filed  in  the  comptroller's  office,  and  thereafter  all  justices' 
fees  and  costs  collected  in  all  actions  brought  for  said  city,  under 
the  city  charter,  shall  be  paid  into  the  city  treasury  as  other  revenue 
of  the  city. 

Sec.  56.  There  shall  be  elected  by  the  people  at  the  next  muni- 
cipal election,  and  biennially  thereafter,  one  "  Police  Court  clerk," 
who  shall  hold  his  office  for  two  years,  and  imtU  his  successor  is 
elected  and  qualified.  He  shall  take  an  oath,  the  same  as  other 
officers  elected  under  this  act  and  the  act  to  which  this  is  amenda- 
tory, and  shall  execute  a  bond  with  sufficient  security  to  the  city, 
to  be  approved  by  the  comptroller  and  mayor  in  such  sum  as  shall 
be  fixed  by  the  Common  Council.  He  shall  receive  a  fixed  salary 
for  his  services  the  amount  thereof  to  be  determined  by  the  Com- 
mon Council  under  this  act.  He  shall  have  power  to  administer 
oaths  and  appoint  deputies  when  in  the  opinion  of  the  Common 
Council  it  may  be  necessary ;  in  which  case  said  deputies  shall  be 
nominated  by  said  clerk  and  approved  by  the  Common  Council, 
and  the  Common  Council  may  prescribe  the  duties  and  fix  the 
compensation  of  such  deputies. 

Sec.  57.  In  case  of  the  temporary  inability  or  absence,  or  in 
case  of  a  vacancy  of  the  clerk  and  there  is  no  deputy,  the  police 
court  may  appoint  some  competent  person  to  discharge  the  duties 
of  the  office  until  the  vacancy  is  filled  or  ceases. 

Sec.  68.  The  duties  of  the  police  clerk  shall  be  to  keep  a  full, 
detailed  and  complete  account  on  his  docket  of  all  cases  and  per- 
sons ai'rested  and  brought  before  the  police  court,  or  any  of  them; 
how  tried  and  disposed  of;  the  number  of  cases  disposed  of;  the 
cases  in  which  moneys  have  been  collected;  and  the  cases  in  which 
money  is  to  be  collected ;  the  amount  of  all  forfertures,  penalties, 
and  fines  assessed,  or  the  punishment  fixed  in  each  case,  with 
the  fees  and  costs  accrued   and  accruing  thereon,   and  to  col- 


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lect,  prosecute  and  receive  payment  of  all  sncli  fees,  fines,  penal- 
ties and  forfeitures,  and  all  judgments  and  executions,  and  all 
moneys  -whatever  accruing  or  to  be  paid  in  for  the  use  of  said  city 
from  the  enforcement  of  any  of  the  laws  thereof,  and  forthwith  to 
pay  over  the  same  to  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  except  the  consta- 
bles' and  witness'  fees,  which  shall  be  paid  to  the  respective  parties 
entitled  thereto. 

Sec.  69.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  see  that  all  cases  are  properly 
prosecuted  before  said  police  court  in  the  absence  of  the  city 
attorney.  He  shall  take  care  that  said  fines,  penalties,  forfeitures, 
fees,  judgments  and  executions  are  collected  in  all  cases  as  speedily 
as  may  be,  and  the  police  justices  shall,  so  far  as  is  possible,  aid 
said  clerk  in  the  collection  thereof. 

Sec.  60.  The  said  police  clerk  shall,  at  the  end  of  every  week, 
make  a  report  to  the  comptroller  of  the  amount  of  such  fines,  fees, 
penalties  and  forfeitures,  as  he  may  have  collected  and  pay  over 
the  same  to  the  city  treasurer,  and  file  his  receipt  therefor  with  the 
said  comptroller.  He  shall  also  specify  in  his  said  reports  the 
number  of  cases  pending ;  the  number  of  cases  in  which  any  fine, 
forfeiture  or  penalty  has  been  inflicted,  and  the  amount  thereof, 
and  also  the  amount  of  moneys  outstanding  to  be  collected  in  such 
cases ;  and  the  state  of  each  case  respectively,  and  upon  making 
each  and  every  such  statement  he  shall  verify  the  same  by  oath  taken 
before  some  competent  ofiicer,  that  such  statement  is  a  full,  fair  and 
complete  statement  of  the  moneys  received  and  collected  by  him. 

Sec.  61.  In  case  of  the  failure  of  such  clerk  to  make  such 
report,  and  pay  over  said  moneys  weekly,  as  herein  required,  a 
notice  shall  be  served  upon  him  by  the  comptroller,  that,  within 
ten  days,  he  is  required  to  make  such  returns,  and  pay  over  all 
moneys  received,  and,  in  case  of  the  failure  of  said  clerk  to  pay 
over  said  moneys,  and  make  such  report  to  the  satisfaction  of  said 
comptroller,  he  shall  be  suspended  and  removed  from  office,  and 
thereupon  the  mayor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 
Common  Council,  shall  appoint  his  successor  to  fill  the  vacancy 
during  the  unexpired  term. 

Sec.  62.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  of  said  police  court  to 
receive  and  safely  keep  in  his  possession,  in  such  place  as  may  be 
provided  by  the  Common  Council  therefor,  all  articles  of  stolen 


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proj^erty,  of  every  description,  found  upon  or  taken  from  the 
possession  of  any  person  or  persons  arrested  for,  or  charged 
with,  crime  within  said  city,  by  any  police  officer,  constable,  or 
conservator  of  the  peace  therein,  or  any  sheriff  or  officer  of  the 
county  of  Cook. 

Sec.  63.  Upon  the  finding  of  any  articles  of  property,  stolen  or 
taken,  from  any  person  or  persons  charged  with  crime,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  all  officers  finding  the  same,  or  arresting  such  persons, 
to  lodge  the  said  property  in  possession  of  said  police  clerk,  and 
take  his  receipt  therefor. 

Sec.  64.  The  said  police  court  clerk  shall  keep  a  record  of  all 
such  articles  and  number  the  same,  stating  the  description  of  the 
article  or  articles,  fi'om  whom  taken,  by  what  officer  or  person 
deposited,  where  found,  the  person  losing  the  same  (if  known) ; 
and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  deliver  said  articles  over  to  such  person 
or  persons  as  may  be  entitled  thereto,  vmder  the  order  of  the  court 
in  which  the  person  upon  whose  possession  the  property  is  found, 
or  from  whom  it  is  taken,  is  tried,  discharged  or  convicted. 

Sec.  65.  In  all  cases  where  such  person  or  persons  are  dis- 
charged upon  arrest,  and  there  is  no  legal  claimant  appearing  to 
replevy  or  try  the  right  of  property,  as  against  such  persons 
arrested,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  court  to  order  the  restitution 
of  the  property  in  all  cases. 

Sec.  66.  In  case  of  the  neglect  or  refusal  of  any  officer,  or 
conservator  of  the  peace,  to  so  deposit  the  property  taken  or  found 
upon  the  possession  of  any  person  or  persons  arrested,  he  shall  be 
subject  to  indictment,  and  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  exceeding  three 
thousand  dollars,  and  in  no  case  less  than  the  value  of  the  property, 
and  be  imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  not  to  exceed  one  year,  and 
the  sentence  of  the  court,  in  such  cases,  ipso  facto ^  shall  vacate 
the  office  of  the  person  so  convicted. 

Sec.  67.  The  Common  Council,  if  it  think  proper,  may,  by 
ordinance,  provide  for  the  appointment  of  a  prosecuting  attorney 
for  said  police  court,  to  manage  all  city  cases  before  it,  and,  in  such 
case,  may  provide  for  his  compensation  by  a  salary. 

Sec.  68.  In  case  of  the  appointment  of  such  prosecuting  attor- 
ney of  the  police  court,  he  shall  prosecute  all  cases  before  it,  and 


22  FEES    AND    SALAEIES. 

also  superintend  the  collection  of  fees,  fines,  forfeitures,  judgments 
and  executions,  and  keep  a  docket  thereof,  and  file  a  monthly- 
report  of  the  number  of  all  cases  commenced,  and  all  cases  dis- 
posed of,  with  the  names  of  the  parties  sued,  and  the  amount  of 
fines,  fees  and  forfeitures  collected ;  with  the  number  of  cases 
where  moneys  are  uncollected,  and  the  amount  thereof,  and  file 
such  reports  in  the  city  comptroller's  office. 

Sec.  69.  The  clerk  of  the  police  court  and  police  prosecuting 
attorney  (if  any),  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  ordinance  of  the  Common  Council  from  time  to  time. 

Sec.  70.  Appeals  and  change  of  venue  may  be  taken  from  the 
police  justices,  in  all  cases,  the  same  as  before  other  justices  of 
the  peace;  but  all  such  appeals  shall  hereafter  be  taken  to  the 
Recorder's  Court  of  the  city  of  Chicago. 


FEES  AND  SALARIES. 

Sec.  71.  From  and  after  the  first  Tuesday  of  March  next,  all 
fees,  perquisites  and  emoluments  of  ofiice  whatever,  by  way  of 
compensation  for  the  performance  of  any  official  duty  or  duties, 
are  hereby  expressly  prohibited  to  be  retained  by  any  officer 
whose  compensation  is  provided  to  be  paid  by  a  salary,  to  be  fixed 
by  the  Common  Council  under  this  act ;  and  all  fees,  perquisites 
and  emoluments  whatever,  received  or  paid,  or  payable,  to  any 
officer,  justice  of  the  peace,  mayor,  clerk,  attorney,  collector, 
treasurer,  commissioner  of  public  works,  comptroller,  or  other 
person,  whose  compensation  is  to  be  so  paid  by  a  fixed  salary, 
shall  belong  to  and  be  j)aid,  by  such  person  or  persons,  into  the 
city  treasury  of  said  city,  the  same  as  all  other  revenues  belonging 
thereto;  and  any  violation  of  this  provision  shall  subject  the 
offender  to  removal  from  his  office,  and  the  amount  received  by 
him  shall  be  recoverable  by  action  of  debt  or  assumpsit,  in  favor  of 
such  city. 

Sec.  72.  The  mayor  of  said  city  shall,  after  the  next  annual 
election,  receive  an  annual  salary  of  thirty-five  hundred  dollars, 
in  lieu  of  all  other  compensation  whatever. 

Sec.  73.  The  said  salaries  shall  be  payable  monthly  or  quarterly 
out  of  the  appropriate  fund,  voted  by  the  Common  Council  to  pay 
the  same,  upon  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller,  as  in  other  cases. 


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Sec.  V4.  The  Common  Council  may,  by  ordinance,  establish 
salaries,  as  a  fixed  compensation  for  such  other  officers  of  said  city 
as  are  not  named  herein,  in  thek  discretion,  and  may  provide  for 
their  removal  from  office,  in'case  they  receive  or  retain  other  or 
greater  fees  than  so  paid  or  fixed  by  the  corporation  for  their 
services. 


SCHOOLS  AND  SCHOOL  FUND. 

Sec.  75.  The  said  Common  Council  shall  have  power  to  annually 
levy  and  collect  a  school  tax,  not  exceeding  two  mills  on  the 
dollar,  on  all  real  and  personal  estate  within  said  city,  to  meet  the 
expenses  of  purchasing  grounds  for  school  houses,  and  building 
and  repairing  school  houses,  and  supporting  and  maintaining 
schools. 

Sec.  76.  It  is  also  hereby  enacted  that  the  school  tax  levied  on 
said  real  and  personal  estate,  for  the  year  A.  D.  eighteen  hundred 
and  fifty-six,  by  the  Common  Council  of  said  city,  be,  and  the 
same  is,  hereby  expressly  legalized ;  and  the  collector  of  said  city 
is  hereby  directed  and  authorized  to  collect  the  same,  as  in  all 
other  cases,  the  same  as  if  such  levy  had  been  authorized  by  law, 
all  other  provisions  of  any  law  or  enactment,  now  in  force,  in 
conflict  with  the  exercise  of  the  power  hereby  conferred  being 
hereby  expressly  repealed. 

Sec.  V7.  The  Common  Council  of  said  city  shall,  before  the  first 
Tuesday  of  May  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  appoint  fifteen  school 
inspectors,  who  shall  be  denominated  and  styled  the  board  of  edu- 
cation of  said  city.  The  said  board  shall  be  divided  into  three  classes, 
of  five  members  each;  those  of  the  first  class  shall  vacate  their  seats 
at  the  expiration  of  the  first  year;  those  of  the  second  class  at  the 
expiration  of  the  second,  and  those  of  the  third  class  at  the  expira- 
tion of  the  third  year;  so  that  five  new  members  shall  be  aj)point- 
ed  in  every  year  to  succeed  those  whose  terms  of  office  will  expire. 
The  board  of  aldermen,  in  electing  the  first  board,  shall  designate 
the  class  or  term  of  office  to  which  each  inspector  is  to  belong ;  and 
the  members  of  said  board  so  elected  shall  enter  upon  the  discharge 
of  their  duties  on  the  said  first  Tuesday  of  May,  and  shall  hold 
their  offices  for  one,  two  and  three  years,  according  to  their  re- 
spective class,  as  designated  by  the  said  Board  of  aldermen  when 


24  CITY    CEMETEEIES. 


they  are  so  elected,  aud  the  same  shall  be  entered  upon  the  journal 
of  proceedings  of  said  board. 

Sec.  78.  After  the  first  annual  election  of  said  board  of  inspec- 
tors, the  board  of  aldermen  shall  annually  thereafter,  on  or  before 
the  first  Tuesday  of  May  in  every  year,  appoint  five  inspectors  of 
said  board  of  education,  who  shall  hold  their  offices  for  three  years 
and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified,  and  shall  enter 
upon  the  discharge  of  their  duties  on  the  said  first  Tuesday  of  May 
in  each  year. 

Sec.  79.  The  duties  of  said  board  of  education  shall  be  the 
same  as  now  are  or  may  be  hereafter  prescribed  by  the  laws  or 
ordinances  of  said  city. 

Sec.  80.  All  provisions  of  law  providing  for  the  appointment  or 
election  of  school  trustees  in  said  city,  after  the  first  Tuesday  in 
March  next,  are  hereby  expressly  repealed. 


CITY  CEMETERIES. 

Sec.  81.  The  city  of  Chicago  is  hereby  authorized  to  purchase, 
hold,  take  and  convey,  such  tracts  of  land  without  the  city  limits, 
for  the  purpose  of  establishing  such  cemeteries  for  the  interment 
of  the  dead  therein,  as  they  may  think  necessary,  which  shall  be 
exempt  from  taxation  under  any  law  of  this  state. 

Sec.  82.  The  Common  Council  of  said  city  is  hereby  author- 
ized and  empowered  to  pass  such  ordinances,  rules  and  regulations, 
with  regard  to  the  improvement,  preservation,  laying  out,  orna- 
menting, and  the  sale  of  burial  places  or  lots  in  such  cemeteries 
as  they  may  think  necessary  for  the  interment  of  the  dead  therein, 
which  ground  or  grounds  so  laid  out  shall  be  placed  under  the 
superintendence  of  the  board  of  public  works  of  said  city. 

Sec.  83.  As  soon  as  said  grounds  are  regulated  and  laid  out,  a 
map  or  plat  thereof  shall  be  made  out  by  the  city  mayor,  and  a 
copy  thereof  filed  in  the  comptroller's  office,  who  shall  have  charge 
of  the  sale  and  disposition  of  all  lots  therein,  under  the  ordinances 
and  regulations  of  the  Common  Council.  The  proceeds  of  such  sales 
shall  be  paid  into  the  city  treasury,  and  be  credited  and  charged 


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on  the  books  of  the  treasury  department  to  a  "Cemetery  Fund," 
to  be  kept  distinct  from  all  other  funds  of  said  city. 

Sec.  84.  The  said  Common  Council  is  also  fully  empowered  and 
authorized  to  provide  for  the  punishment,  by  ordinance,  of  all  per- 
sons who  shall,  without  said  city  limits,  be  guilty  of  any  violation 
ofthe  regulations,  rules  and  ordinances,  established  by  said  city 
in  relation  to  such  cemeteries  ;  and  such  violations  may  be  punished 
by  fine  and  imprisonment,  as  in  other  cases,  by  any  com-t  of  com- 
petent jurisdiction  within  said  city,  and  all  process  issued  for  the 
arrest  of  any  person  or  persons  guilty  of  such  violation,  may  be 
executed  without  said  city  limits,  by  any  officer  or  constable 
thereof,  the  same  as  if  such  oflence  had  been  committed  within  the 
boundaries  of  the  corporation. 


MISCELLANEOUS  PROVISIONS. 

Sec.  85.  All  ordinances,  regulations  and  resolutions,  now  in 
force  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  not  inconsistent  with  this  act, 
shall  remain  in  force  under  this  act,  until  altered,  modified  or 
repealed  by  the  Common  Council,  after  this  act  shall  take  effect. 

Sec.  86.  All  actions,  rights,  fines,  penalties  and  forfeitures,  in 
suit  or  otherwise,  which  have  accrued  under  any  act  to  which  this 
act  is  an  amendment,  or  under  any  ordinance  of  said  city  now  in 
force,  shall  be  vested  in  and  be  prosecuted  by  the  corporation,  and 
all  proceedings  now  or  hereafter  commenced  for  the  opening  of  any 
street  or  streets  in  said  city,  and  the  assessment  of  real  estate  for 
any  such  improvement,  is  hereby  expressly  legalized  and  affirmed, 
and  the  Common  Council  is  hereby  expressly  authorized  to  con- 
tmue  such  proceedings,  and  open  said  street  or  streets ;  any 
defect,  decree  or  order,  of  any  court  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
standing. 

Sec.  87.  All  such  parts  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment, 
and  the  several  acts  amending  or  in  any  manner  affecting  the  same, 
or  as  are  inconsistent  with  this  act,  are  hereby  repealed ;  but  so 
much  and  such  parts  thereof  as  are  not  inconsistent  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  law,  shall  not  be  construed  as  repealed,  altered  or 


26  MISCELLANEOUS    PEO VISION'S. 

modified,  or  in  any  form  affected  thereby,  but  shall  continue  and 
remain  in  full  force  and  virtue. 

Sec.  88.  All  that  part  of  the  city  which  lies  west  of  the  south 
branch  of  the  Chicago  river,  and  south  of  aline  running  east  and 
west  along  the  center  of  Randolph  street,  and  north  of  the  center 
of  Harrison  street,  shall  be  denominated  the  Fifth  Ward ;  and 

All  that  part  of  said  city  which  lies  west  of  the  south  branch  of 
the  Chicago  river,  and  south  of  a  line  in  the  center  of  Harrison 
street,  shall  be  denominated  the  Tenth  Ward. 

Sec.  89.  All  aldermen  and  officers  now  elected  or  appointed  in 
and  for  the  said  fifth  ward  of  said  city,  shall  continue  in  their 
respective  offices  to  the  end  of  then*  respective  terms  for  which  they 
were  elected  or  appointed,  any  provision  of  law  now  in  force  to  the 
contrary  notwithstanding. 

Sec.  90.  An  election  shall  be  held  in  and  for  the  said  tenth  ward 
at  the  next  annual  election,  for  two  aldermen  to  represent  such 
ward  in  the  Common  CouncU,  as  also  a  police  constable  for  said 
ward ;  and  all  provisions  of  law  relating  to  the  several  wards  of 
said  city  shall,  so  far  as  they  may  be  applicable,  apply  to  said  tenth 
ward;  and  in  all  such  elections  the  qualifications  and  duties  of 
aldermen  shall  be  the  same  as  required  by  law  in  other  cases. 


PUBLIC    PARKS 


Sectioi^  1.  The  judge  of  the  Cook  County  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  shall,  within  six  months  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  or  so 
soon  after  the  annual  election  as  may  be,  appoint  three  discreet  and 
disinterested  freeholders  of  said  City,  as  Commissioners  of  Estimate 
and  Assessment,  to  lay  out  a  Public  Park  in  the  South  Division  of 
said  city. 

Sec.  2.  Upon  the  appointment  of  said  commissioners  they  shall 
severally  take  an  oath  before  some  authorized  person,  that  they 
will  proceed  faithfully  and  impartiully  to  discharge  the  duties 
required  of  them  under  this  act.  In  case  of  the  death,  resignation, 
disqualification  or  refusal  of  either  of,  or  any  of  said  commissioners 
to  act,  the  said  judge  of  said  court  shall  appoint  some  disinterested 
and  discreet  freeholder  of  said  city  to  act  in  the  place  or  stead  of 
the  commissioner  so  dying,  resigning  or  refusing  to  act. 

Sec.  3.  Upon  the  qualification  of  said  commissioners,  they  shall 
proceed  to  have  surveyed,  laid  out  and  appropriated,  a  public  park 
in  said  south  division  of  Chicago,  which  shall  embrace  an  area  of 
not  less  than  one  hundred  acres  of  land,  nor  more  than  three  hun- 
dred acres,  which  shall  forever  remain  open  and  dedicated  to  the 
free  use  and  exercise  of  all  citizens  of  said  city,  subject  to  the 
regulation  of  the  Common  Council  thereof. 

Sec.  4.  The  said  land  so  to  be  taken  shall  be  laid  out  and  appro- 
priated as  aforesaid,  south  of  Twelfth  street,  west  of  Michigan 
avenue  and  east  of  Stewart  avenue,  and  as  nearly  central  as  may  be 
between  Lake  Michigan  and  the  south  branch  of  the  Chicago  river; 
and  from  such  blocks,  pieces  and  parcels  of  land  within  said  terri- 
tory as  may  lie  contiguous  to  each  other,  extending  southwardly 
to  the  southern  limits  of  said  city,  and  widening  the  area  southward 
of  such  park,  in  such  places  and  in  such  proportion  as  the  commis- 
sioners may  think  will  combine  taste  and  utility  with  cheapness  of 
price  in  the  land  to  be  taken. 


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Sec.  5.  The  said  commissioners  may  requii-e  the  assistance  of  . 
the  city  surveyor  and  engineer,  in  making  all  necessary  sm'veys, 
plats  and  profiles  of  said  public  grounds ;  and  as  soon  as  said  com- 
missioners shall  determine  upon  the  grounds  to  be  appropriated 
annd  take,  they  shall  file  a  plat  thereof  in  the  city  clerk's  office, 
and  shall  submit  one  other  copy  with  a  report  signed  by  said  com- 
missioners to  the  court  of  common  pleas,  in  vacation  or  term  time, 
which  shall  be  spread  upon  the  records  of  said  court ;  and  thereupon 
the  said  lands,  lots  and  pieces  and  parcels  of  land  designated  on 
such  plat,  shall  be  and  they  are  hereby  declared  to  be  a  public  park 
and  common,  in  said  city ;  said  reports  shall  be  filed  within  three 
months  from  the  appointment  of  said  commissioners. 

Sec.  6.  After  the  filing  of  said  report,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said 
commissioners  as  soon  as  conveniently  may  be,  to  make  just  and 
true  estimates  of  the  loss  and  damage  to  the  respective  owners, 
lessees,  parties  and  persons  respectively  entitled  unto  or  interested 
in  the  lands  designated  in  their  said  report  and  included  within  the 
boundaries  of  said  public  park  or  common;  together  with  the  ten- 
ements, hereditaments  and  premises  and  their  appurtenances,  and 
each  and  every  part  and  parcel  thereof  as  far  as  can  be  ascertained 
by  them ;  and  shall  state  in  their  report,  in  general  terms,  the 
respective  sums  to  be  allowed  and  paid  to  the  owner  or  owners 
and  proprietors  generally  of  such  lands,  tenements,  hereditaments 
and  premises,  or  the  appurtenances  and  privileges  to  the  same 
belonging^  or  appertaming,  and  the  loss  and  damages  to  the  owners 
thereof  (if  known,  and  if  unknown  shall  so  state  in  said  report),  in 
respect  to  the  whole  estate  and  interest  of  whomsoever  may  be 
entitled  unto  or  interested  in  said  lands,  by  and  in  consequence  of 
relinquishing  the  same  to  the  city  of  Chicago  for  said  public  park. 

Sec.  1.  It  shall  not  be  necessary  to  specify  the  name  of  the 
estates  of  the  diiferent  owners,  proprietors  or  parties  interested,  or 
of  any  or  either  of  them,  but  generally  to  put  down  the  damage  to 
the  property  taken  or  described  in  such  report. 

Sec.  8.  Upon  the  coming  in  of  such  report,  signed  by  said  com- 
missioners or  any  two  of  them,  the  said  court  shall  by  rule  or  order, 
after  hearing  any  matter  or  thing  which  shall  be  alleged  against 
the  same,  either  confirm  the  said  report,  or  refer  the  same  back  to 
the  said  commissioners  for  revisal  and  correction,  or  to  new  com- 
missioners to  be  appointed  by  said  court,  to  reconsider  the  subject 


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matter  thereof,  and  the  same  bemg  retm-necl  by  such  new  commis- 
sioners, the  court  shall  proceed  in  like  manner  as  before  provided, 
as  right  and  justice  may  require,  until  a  report  shall  be  made  or 
returned  in  the  premises,  which  the  said  court  shall  confirm,  and 
such  report  when  so  confirmed,  shall  be  final  and  conclusive,  as 
well  upon  said  city  as  upon  all  owners  or  others  interested  in  the 
lands  so  appropriated  and  designated  as  aforesaid,  and  from  thence- 
forth the  said  city  shall  be  seized  of  all  said  premises  to  the  use  of 
a  public  park  for  the  people  of  Chicago  forever. 

Sec.  9.  The  said  commissioners  shall  also  in  their  said  proceed- 
ings, assess  the  said  damages  and  costs,  or  so  much  thereof  as  is 
just  and  equitable,  upon  all  property  benefitted  in  proportion  as 
nearly  as  may  be  to  the  benefit  resulting  thereto  from  such  improve- 
ment to  the  owners  of  all  such  property  benefitted ;  and  shall  in 
like  manner  include  the  same  in  their  said  rej^ort,  with  the  descrip- 
tion of  all  the  said  property  benefitted,  and  the  names  of  the  owners 
where  known,  and  where  unknown  shall  so  state  in  their  said 
report,  and  upon  the  confirmation  of  said  report,  the  said  court  shall 
enter  an  order  against  said  lands  assessed  for  the  amount  of  such 
assessment,  including  all  costs  and  expenses  of  said  proceedings; 
under  which  order  the  collector  of  said  city  shall  be  designated  to 
collect  the  same  of  the  respective  owners,  and  in  case  of  default,  to 
sell  such  lands  and  all  interest  therein  at  public  sale,  upon  twenty 
days'  notice,  in  the  same  manner  that  other  sales  are  authorized  to 
be  made  for  the  non-payment  of  taxes  and  assessments  of  said  city. 

Sec.  10.  For  the  payment  of  so  much  of  the  damages  awarded 
by  the  commissioners  of  estimate  and  assessment,  and  the  expenses, 
disbursements  and  charges  in  the  premises,  as  shaU  exceed  the 
amount  or  sums  that  may  be  assessed  by  said  commissioners  upon 
the  parties  and  persons,  lands  and  tenements  deemed  by  them  bene- 
fitted by  the  laying  out  of  such  public  park,  it  shah  be  lawful  for 
the  mayor  and  Common  Council  to  raise  such  excess  by  loan,  by 
the  creation  of  a  public  fund  or  stock  to  be  called  the  "  Chicago 
Park  Stock,"  which  shall  bear  an  interest  not  exceeding  ten  per 
centum  per  annum,  and  shall  be  redeemed  within  a  period  of  time 
not  exceeding  fifty  years  after  the  passage  of  this  act  and  for  the 
payment  of  which  the  piece  of  land  so  taken,  as  aforesaid,  shall  be 
irrevocably  pledged. 

Sec.  11.   The  mayor  and  Common  Council  shall  determine  what 


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shall  be  the  nominal  amount  or  value  of  each  share  of  stock,  and 
of  what  number  of  shares  the  same  shall  consist,  and  the  mayor  of 
said  city  is  hereby  authorized  to  sell  and  dispose  of  such  shares  on 
such  terms  as  the  Common  Council  may  prescribe. 

Sec.  12.  In  order  to  pay  the  interest  on  said  stock  hereby  author- 
ized, the  Common  Council  of  said  city  shall,  and  they  are  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  to  order,  and  cause  to  be  raised  annually 
by  tax  on  the  property,  real  and  personal,  subject  to  taxation  within 
the  south  division  of  said  city,  a  sum  of  money  sufficient  to  pay  the 
interest  annually  accruing  on  said  stock,  which  amount  shall  be 
levied  and  collected  in  addition  to  the  ordinary  taxes  yearly  and 
every  year,  for  the  payment  of  such  interest. 

Sec.  13.  After  the  report  and  order  of  confirmation  is  entered 
by  the  court  as  herein  provided,  the  city  shall  make  provision  for 
the  payment  of  all  damages  within  six  months  from  the  confirma- 
tion thereof,  and  in  case  the  same  is  not  paid  to  the  persons  entitled 
thereto,  or  deposited  to  their  use  with  the  clerk  of  the  said  coiu't  of 
common  pleas,  an  action  may  be  maintained  by  any  person  or  per- 
sons entitled  thereto  against  the  corporation  for  the  amount  of  his 
share  of  said  damages. 

Sec.  14.  In  case  at  any  time  that  all  the  aldermen  of  the  West 
or  North  Divisions  of  said  city,  shall  agree  in  presenting  a  petition 
to  the  said  Cook  County  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  for  the  laying 
out  a  pai'k  in  their  respective  divisions,  the  court  shall  proceed  to 
appoint  commissioners,  and  all  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  in 
like  manner  apply  to  the  respective  divisions,  where  the  laying  out 
such  park  is  desired,  in  the  manner  aforesaid,  the  same  as  if  said 
divisions  were  respectively  named  herein. 

This  act  to  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 

SAMUEL  HOLMES, 

Speaker  of  House  of  Representatives. 

JOHN  WOOD, 

Speaker  of  the  Senate. 
Approved  February  16,  1857. 

WILLIAM  H.  BISSELL. 


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United  States  op  America, 

State  of  Illinois. 

I,  OziAS  M.  Hatch,  Secretary  of  State  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 

do  hereby  certify,  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  and  correct  copy  of 

enroled  law  now  on  file  in  my  office.      In  witness  whereof  I  have 

hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the  great  seal  of 

[seal.]        state  to  be  affixed.     Done  at  the  city  of  Springfield, 

this  18th  day  of  February,  A.  D.  1857. 

O.  M.  HATCH, 

Secretary  of  State. 


A.lsr  A-CT 


To  amend  the  Act  entitled  ^^ An  Act  to  reduce  the  laio  incorporating 
the  City  of  Chicago,  and  the  several  Acts  amendatory  thereof 
into  one  Act,  and  to  amend  the  same,''''  approved  February  14, 
1851. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly :  In  order  to  carry  out  fully 
the  object  and  intent  of  the  sixty-second  section  of  the  fourth 
chapter  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  the  Common 
Council  of  the  city  of  Chicago  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered 
to  establish  and  maintain  at  its  option,  either  within  or  without 
the  corporate  limits  of  said  city,  a  Reform  School,  and  to  assess  a 
tax  upon  the  real  estate  in  said  city,  year  by  year,  for  the  support 
of  the  same,  not  exceeding,  however,  two  mills,  and  to  be  levied 
and  collected  in  the  same  manner  and  at  the  same  time  that  the 
general  taxes  of  the  city  are  now ;  but  no  such  tax  shall  be  levied 
or  collected  in  any  year  when  there  shall  remain,  from  the  taxes 
assessed  for  such  purpose  for  any  previous  year  or  years,  and  col- 
lected and  paid  into  the  treasiuy  and  unexpended  for  the  purposes 
of  such  school,  a  sum  of  money  that,  in  the  estimation  of  the 
Board  of  Guardians  of  such  school,  shall  be  deemed  sufficient  for 
the  support  of  the  Reform  School  for  such  year. 

Sec.  2.  The  Reform  School  now  established  by  the  ordinance  of 
the  Common  Council  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  is  hereby  declared  to 
have  been  and  to  be  established  in  conformity  with  the  provisions 
of  the  said  sixty-second  section  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  section, 
and  the  said  ordinance  and  the  amendments  thereto  are  hereby 
continued  in  force  and  eifect  until  altered,  changed  or  amended  by 
said  Common  Council,  and  the  said  Common  Council  is  hereby 
authorized  to  alter,  change,  amend  or  repeal,  in  its  option,  the  said 
ordinance,  at  any  and  all  times  when  it  shall  deem  proper ;  but 
not  so  as  to  contravene  any  provisions  contained  herein,  or  any 
laws  of  the  state  now  or  hereafter  existing. 


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Sec.  3.  Each  and  all  courts  having  criminal  jurisdiction  in  the 
county  of  Cook,  and  each  and  all  police  magistrates  in  the  city  of 
Chicago  shall  sentence  to  the  said  reform  school,  every  male  under 
the  age  of  seventeen  years  and  over  the  age  of  six  years,  who  shall 
be  convicted  before  such  court  or  magistrate  of  vagrancy,  or  of 
any  oiFense  punishable  by  law  by  fine  or  imprisonment,  and  who 
the  said  courts  or  police  magistrates  shall  be  of  opmion  would  be  a 
fit  and  proper  subject  for  commitment  to  said  reform  school,  and 
an  order  to  such  eflect  shall  be  entered  of  record  in  the  proceed- 
ings of  said  court  or  magistrate;  and  thereupon  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  said  court  or  magistrate,  by  warrant  in  due  form  of  law,  to 
commit  such  boy  to  said  reform  school,  and  all  warrants  of  com- 
mitments of  such  boys,  shall  express  the  crune  or  complaint  for 
which  such  commitment  is  made  and  the  age  of  the  boy,  but  no 
such  warrant  of  commitment  shall  be  considered  bad  for  want  of 
form  or  technicality,  and  the  same  may  be  directed  to  the  sheriff 
or  any  constable  of  Cook  county  or  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  who 
shall  execute  the  same  and  deliver  the  boy  or  boys  named  in  such 
warrant  to  the  superintendent  of  the  reform  school  with  the  war- 
rant, and  for  such  services  shall  b3  paid  the  same  fees  and  in  the 
same  manner  as  are  now  provided  in  case  of  the  commitment  of  a 
criminal  to  the  Cook  county  jail,  for  a  misdemeanor  or  ofiense 
punishable  by  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail. 

Sec.  4.  Each  and  every  boy  above  the  age  of  six  years  and 
under  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  who  shall  be  legally  committed 
to  said  school  as  provided  in  the  foregoing  section,  shall  be  kept 
disciplined,  instructed,  employed  and  governed  under  the  du-ection 
of  the  board  of  guardians  of  said  school,  until  he  be  either  reform- 
ed and  discharged,  or  be  bound  out  by  said  guardians,  or  until  he 
shall  have  arrived  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years ;  and  all  com- 
mitments to  said  reform  school  shall  be  to  such  efiect  and  need 
not  express  the  time  for  which  such  boy  shall  be  committed,  and  the 
said  board  of  guardians  are  hereby  clothed  with  the  sole  power  to 
discharge  any  boy  or  boys  from  said  reform  school,  who  have  been 
or  may  hereafter  be  legally  committed  to  such  reform  school,  and 
such  power  of  discharge  shall  rest  solely  with  said  board  of  guardians, 
and  with  no  other  person  or  body  politic  or  corporate,  but  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  said  board  of  guardians,  and  they  shall  have 
power  to  return  any  boy  to  the  authorities  of  the  county  or  city 
from  which  any  such  boy  may  be  or  shall  have  been  received,  whom 


34  REFORM   SCHOOL. 


the  said  guardians  may  deem  to  be  an  improper  subject  for  their  care 
and  management,  or  who  shall  be  found  to  be  incorrigible,  or  whose 
continuance  in  the  schoolthey  may  deem  prejudicial  to  the  manage- 
ment and  discipline  thereof,  or  who  in  their  judgment  ought  for 
any  cause  to  be  removed  from  said  school,  and  in  every  such  case 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  guardians  to  transmit  to  the  coixrt  or 
magistrate  by  whom  the  said  boy  was  committed  to  said  school,  a 
statement  of  the  reasons  for  said  discharge,  and  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  authorities  of  the  city  or  county,  to  whom  such  boy 
shall  be  returned,  to  produce  such  boy  before  the  court  or  magis- 
trate by  whom  such  boy  was  committed,  as  soon  as  the  same  can 
reasonably  be  done,  and  such  court  or  magistrate  shall  have  power 
thereupon  to  make  such  order  and  have  such  proceedings  as  Avould 
have  been  legal  in  the  first  instance,  and  as  would  have  been  made 
or  had  in  case  said  boy  had  not  been  sent  to  said  reform  school. 

Sec.  5.  Said  guardians  shall  have  power  to  bind  out  all  boys 
committed  to  their  charge  for  any  term  of  time  until  they  shall 
have  arrived  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  as  apprentices  or 
servants  to  any  inhabitant  of  this  state,  and  the  said  guardians  and 
master  or  mistress,  apprentice  or  servant,  shall  respectively  have 
all  the  rights  and  privileges  and  be  subject  to  all  the  duties  set  forth 
in  chapter  sixth  of  the  Revised  Statutes,  entitled  "  Apprentices," 
in  the  same  manner  as  if  said  binding  or  apprenticing  were  made 
by  any  two  overseers  of  the  poor,  or  by  the  mayor  or  any  two 
aldermen  of  any  city ;  and  the  same  clauses  and  provisions  required 
to  be  inserted  in  the  indentures  of  apprentices  in  such  cases  shall 
be  inserted  in  all  indentures  that  may  be  executed  by  the  said 
guardians.  No  person  receiving  an  apprentice  under  the  provis- 
ions of  this  act  shall  be  at  liberty  to  assign  or  transfer  the  indenture 
of  apprenticeship  without  the  consent  in  writing  of  said  guardians, 
and  in  case  the  master  or  mistress  of  such  apprentice  shall  be 
dissatisfied  with  his  behavior,  or  for  any  other  cause  may  desire  to  be 
relieved  from  said  contract,  upon  application,  said  guardians  may 
in  then-  discretion  cancel  the  said  indenture  and  resume  the  charge 
and  management  of  such  boy,  and  shall  have  the  same  power  and 
authority  in  regardto  him  as  before  such  indenture  was  made ;  and  if 
any  master  or  mistress  shall  be  guilty  of  any  cruelty,  mis-usage,  refu- 
sal or  neglect  to  furnish  necessary  provisions,  clothing,  or  any  other 
violation  of  the  terms  of  the  indenture  towards  any  boy  so  bound 
to  service,  such  boy  may  make  complaint  to  the  board  of  guardians 


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of  said  school,  or  to  any  court  or  magistrate  having  power  to 
commit  boys  to  said  school,  who  shall  thereupon  summon  the 
parties  before  said  court  or  magistrate  and  examine  into,  hear  and 
determine  said  complaint,  and  if  upon  examination  such  complaint 
shall  appear  to  be  well  founded,  such  court  or  magistrate  shall,  by 
certificate  under  seal,  discharge  such  boy  from  all  obligations  of 
future  service  and  restore  him  to  said  school  to  be  managed  and  taken 
care  of  in  like  manner  and  with  the  same  powers  as  before  such 
indenture,  and  a  right  of  action  shall  immediately  accrue  against 
such  master  or  mistress  as  for  a  violation  of  the  covenants  of  such 
indenture.  Upon  the  death  or  removal  from  the  State  of  Illinois 
of  any  master  or  mistress  to  whom  any  boy  be  bound  as  aforesaid, 
the  executor  or  administrators  of  such  master  or  mistress  that  may 
have  so  deceased,  or  said  master  or  mistress  in  person  who  are 
about  to  remove,  with  the  consent  of  the  boy  so  bound  to  service, 
signified  in  a  writing  acknowledged  and  approved  by  the  said 
guardians,  may  assign  the  indenture  or  contract  of  services  to 
some  other  person,  which  assignment  shall  transfer  and  rest  in 
such  assignee  all  the  rights  of  the  original  master  or  mistress,  and 
also  make  the  assignee  subject  to  all  the  obligations  of  such  original 
master  or  mistress ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  to  whom 
any  boy  is  so  apprenticed  as  aforesaid,  to  report  to  said  guardians  as 
often  as  once  in  each  year,  and  at  all  other  times  when  required  of  by 
said  guardians,  the  conduct,  behavior,  the  condition  and  health  of 
such  apprentice,  and  whether  such  apprentice  is  still  living  with 
him  or  them,  and  if  not  where  such  apprentice  may  be,  and  such 
other  facts  with  regard  to  such  apprentice  as  may  be  important  for 
said  guardians  to  know. 

Sec.  6.  In  case  a  reform  school,  or  schools,  or  other  institution 
of  a  like  character,  and  for  a  like  purpose,  should  at  any  time  be 
established  by  the  state  as  a  state  institution,  the  Common  Council 
of  the  city  of  Chicago  are*  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to 
remove  and  transfer  to  such  state  institution,  as  soon  as  the  same 
shall  be  in  operation,  or  at  any  time  thereafter,  all  the  boys  that 
may  at  such  time  be  in  the  Chicago  Reform  School,  and  thereafter 
aU  such  boys  so  removed  and  all  other  boys  that  may  at  any  time 
thereafter  be  sent  to  the  Chicago  Reform  School,  or  that  the  board 
of  guardians  of  said  Chicago  Reform  School  would  otherwise  be 
authorised  to  take  and  receive  into  the  Chicago  Reform  School, 
shall  be  sent  to  and  received  and  taken  by  such  State  Reform  . 


36  EEFOEM    SCHOOL. 


School,  and  shall  be  under  the  control,  guardianship  and  custody 
of  the  board  of  guardians  or  other  governing  board  of  such  State 
Reform  School  or  institution  in  the  same  way  and  manner,  and  to 
the  same  extent  in  all  resj^ects  as  if  such  boy  and  boys  had  been 
sent  or  sentenced  to  any  such  State  Reform  School  or  institution  in 
the  first  instance,  and  agreeably  to  the  law  or  laws  that  may  be  or 
have  been  for  such  case  made  and  provided ;  such  removal  and 
removals  of  such  boys  from  said  Chicago  Reform  School  to  such 
State  Reform  School,  or  other  similar  institution,  shall  be  made 
under  the  direction  of  the  mayor  and  Common  Council  of  the  city 
of  Chicago,  and  any  police  officer  or  constable,  one  or  more,  of 
said  city  of  Chicago,  that  may  be  directed  by  said  mayor  and 
Common  Council  to  make  such  removal,  are  hereby  clothed  with 
the  same  power  to  take  such  boys  through  any  county  in  the  state 
and  deliver  such  boys  to  such  State  Reform  School  or  other 
institution  established  for  similar  purposes,  as  a  sherifl!'  now  has 
by  law  to  remove  a  convict  from  the  comity  where  convicted  to 
the  state  penitentiary. 

Sec.  7.  By  permission  of  the  Common  Council  of  the  city  of 
Chicago,  male  juvenile  delinquents,  between  the  ages  of  six  years 
and  seventeen  years,  that  may  be  proper  subjects  for  said  reform 
school,  may  in  like  manner  as  hereinbefore  provided  for,  in  the 
case  of  male  juvenile  delinquents  in  said  city  of  Chicago  be 
sentenced  by  any  court  of  criminal  jurisdiction,  or  police  magis- 
trate, or  police  justice,  in  any  county  or  city  of  this  state  to  said 
Chicago  Reform  School,  subject  however  to  such  rules  and  regula- 
tions as  the  said  Common  Council  may  establish,  and  the  expense 
at  said  school  of  such  boys  so  committed  shall  be  respectively 
borne  and  paid  by  the  counties  or  cities  where  such  boys  may  be 
respectively  convicted. 

Sec.  8.  This  act  shall  take  efiect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after 
its  passage. 

SAMUEL  HOLMES, 

Speaker  of  the  Hoxise  of  Representatives. 

JOHN  WOOD, 

Speaker  of  the  Senate. 

Approved  February  14,  1857. 

WM.   H.   BISSEL. 


KEFORM   SCHOOL.  37 


UxiTED  States  of  America, 

and  State  of  Illinois.  )     ' 

I,  O.  M.  Hatch,  Secretary  of  State  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  hereby  certify  the  foregoing  to  be  a  true  copy  of 
an  enroled  law  now  on  file  in  my  office.     In  testimony  whereof  I 
hereunto  set  my  hand  and  affix  the  Great  Seal 
[sEAi.]  of  State.     Done   at  the   city  of  Springfield 

this  20th  day  of  February,  A.  D.  1857. 
O.    M.   HATCH, 

Secretary  of  State. 


'^fo.  Z 


CITY   ORDINANCES 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  Nuisances. 

Whereas,  by  the  seventeenth  subdivision  of  Section  Four  of 
Chapter  Four  of  an  act  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Illinois,  entitled  '•'■An  act  to  reduce  the  laws  incorporting  the  City  of 
Chicago  and  the  several  acts  amendatory  thereof  ijito  one  act^  and 
to  amend  the  same^''  A^yproved^  February  14,  1851,  the  Com- 
mon Council  of  the  city  of  Chicago  is  empowered  as  follows,  to  wit : 
Seventeenth^  To  direct  the  location  and  management  of,  and  regu- 
late breweries,  tanneries  and  packing  houses,  and  to  direct  the 
location,  management,  and  construction  of,  and  regulate,  restrain, 
abate  and  prohibit  within  the  city,  and  the  distance  of  foiu*  miles 
therefrom,  distilleries,  slaughtering  establishments,  establishments 
for  steaming  or  rendering  lard,  tallow,  offal  and  such  other  sub- 
stances as  can  or  may  be  rendered;  and  all  establishments  or 
places  where  any  nauseous,  offensive  or  unwholseme  business  may 
be  carried  on :  Frovided,  That  for  the  purposes  of  this  section  the 
Chicago  river  and  its  branches  to  their  respective  sources,  and 
the  land  adjacent  thereto  or  within  one  hundred  rods  thereof 
shall  be  deemed  to  be  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  city,  and 
whereas,  also,  the  Common  Council  of  the  said  city  by  the  thirty- 
thuxl  and  fifty-ninth  subdivisions  of  the  section,  chapter  and  act 
aforesaid  are  further  empowered  as  follows,  to  wit :  Thirty-third, 
To  abate  and  remove  nuisances  and  punish  the  authors  thereof,  by 
penalties,  fine  and  imprisonment,  and  to  define  and  declare  what 
shall  be  nuisances,  and  authorize  and  direct  the  summary  abate- 
ment thereof.     Fifty-ninth,  To  abate  all  nuisances  which  are  or 


40  COlSrCERNESTG   NUISAlSrCES. 

may  be  injurious  to   the  public  health  in  any  manner  they  may 
deem  expedient.     Therefore, 

SECTi02f  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  : 

First — That  all  places  and  establishments  within  the  coi'porate 
limits  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  within  the  distance  of  tico  ndles 
therefrom  used  for  the  steaming  or  rendering  of  lard,  tallow,  offal 
or  dead  animals ; 

Second — All  places  and  establishments  within  the  corporate 
limits  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  the  distance  of  two  miles 
therefrom,  used  for  the  steaming  or  rendering  of  such  other  sub- 
stances as  may  or  can  be  rendered — which  in  being  so  rendered 
shall  cause  the  business  thereof  to  be  nauseous,  offensive,  unwhole- 
some or  injurious  to  the  public  health  ;  and 

Third — All  distilleries  and  slaughtering  establishments  within 
the  corporate  limits  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  be  and  the  same  are 
hereby  prohibited,  and  the  same  are  hereby  severally  declared 
nuisances. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  health  officer  or  any  member 
of  the  board  of  health  to  serve  a  notice  upon  any  owner  or  occu- 
pant of  any  or  either  of  the  places,  establishments  or  nuisances 
aforesaid  (if  such  owner  or  occupant  can  readily  be  found,  if  not, 
to  post  up  such  notice  upon  some  conspicuous  place  thereon), 
requiring  such  nuisance  or  business  to  be  abated  within  ten  days 
from  the  date  thereof.  In  case  such  nuisance  or  business  shall  not 
be  abated  within  the  period  specified  in  said  notice,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  city  marshal  and  health  officer,  or  either  of  them,  forth- 
with to  summarily  abate  or  remove  the  same,  and  for  that  purpose 
may  call  upon  or  employ  such  assistants  as  by  them  may  be  deemed 
necessary,  and  aU  expenses  and  costs  of  such  abatement  or  removal 
shall  be  enforced  and  collected  of  the  owner  or  occupant,  or  by 
assessment  upon  the  real  estate — as  is  now  provided,  and  any 
owner  or  occupant  who  shall  not  comply  with  the  above  notice,  so 
as  aforesaid  served  within  the  time  specified,  or  any  person,  owner, 
or  occupant  who  shall  resist  or  interfere  with  any  officer  or  person* 
while  engaged  in  the  discharge  of  the  duty  aforesaid,  shall  on  con- 
viction pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  two  dollars  nor  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars  ;  and  such  owner  or  occupant  shall  also  be  liable 
to  pay  an  additional  fine  of  fifty  dollars  for  every  twenty- four  hours 


EELATINa   TO   HAY    AND    WOOD    STANDS.  41 

such  nuisance  or  business  shall  be  continued  after  the  expiration  of 
the  time  mentioned  hi  said  notice. 

Sec.  4.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  in  twenty  days  after  its 
due  publication,  and  shall  not  affect  any  establishment  or  business 
for  the  carrying  on  of  which  a  permit  by  the  mayor  or  Common 
CouncU  has  been  granted  in  pursuance  of  the  ordinances  of  the 
city  during  the  period  of  such  permit;  and  all  ordinances  and 
parts  of  ordinances  inconsistant  herewith  be  and  the  same  are 
hereby  repealed. 

Passed  Se2)t.  22,  1856. 

APPROVED, 

THOS.  DYER,  Ilayor. 

ATTEST, 

H,  W.  ZiMMEEMAJsr,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  amend  an  Ordinance  entitled  "  An  Ordinance  relating  to  Hay 
and  Wood  Stands,''''  passed  May  5th,  1851,  atid  the  amendment 
thereto  of  November  I2th,  1855. 

Section  1.  JBe  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  in  the  West  Division  of  the  city  of  Chicago, 
the  center  of  the  street,  extending  from  a  point  one  hundred  feet 
west  of  the  west  end  of  the  market  house  to  the  east  line  of  Ilal- 
sted  street,  leaving  all  the  planking  on  each  side  of  said  center 
clear  and  unoccupied,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  designated  as  the 
Hay  and  Wood  Stand  of  the  West  Division,  and  that  the  provi- 
sions and  penalties  of  the  ordinance  to  which  this  is  an  amendment 
shall  extend  to  this. 

Passed  September  22d,  1856. 

Appkoved, 

THOS.  DYER,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  Zi:^rMERMAN,  City  Cleric. 


42  EELATmG   TO    STEEETS    AND    ALLEYS. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  amend  an  Ordinance  concerning  Peddlers,  passed  August 
25th,  1851. 

Section  1.  _Z?e  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  hereafter  the  mayor  shall  be  authorized  to  issue 
licenses  to  any  person,  in  his  discretion,  to  peddle  books  and  news- 
papers, on  payment  of  the  usual  fees.  Such  license  may  be 
revoked  at  any  time  in  the  discretion  of  the  mayor. 

Sec.  2.   This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  after  due  publication. 
Passed  September  22d,  1856. 

Appkoved, 

THOS.  DYER,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  ZiMMEKMAN,  City  ClevTc. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

In,  relation  to  obstruction  in  Streets  and  Alleys. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  whenever  any  side  or  crosswalk  planking,  pave- 
ment, street  or  alley  in  said  city,  shall  be  torn  or  dug  up  or  in  any 
manner  interfered  with  by  the  board  of  sewerage  commissioners  of 
said  city,  the  boai'd  of  water  commissioners  of  the  city  of  Chicago, 
the  Chicago  Gas  Light  and  Coke  Company  of  said  city,  or  any  per- 
son or  persons,  or  corporation,  acting  by  lawful  authority  and  in 
pursuance  thereof,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  person  or  persons,  or 
corporation  so  tearing,  digging  up  or  in  any  manner  interfering 
with  such  side  or  crosswalk,  planking,  pavement,  street  or  alley, 
to  repair,  replace  and  restore  the  same  to  the  same  condition,  as 
near  as  may  be,  as  that  in  which  it  was  before  being  so  torn  or  dug 
up  or  interfered  with,  immediately  upon  the  completion  of  the 
drain,  sewer,  pipe  laying,  or  other  purpose  for  which  the  same  was 
so  torn  or  dug  up  or  interfered  with,  and  as  fast  as  practicable 
during  the  progress  of  the  work. 


BILLIAED     TABLES,    ETC.  43 

Sec.  2.  Any  person,  persons  or  corporation  violating  or  failing 
to  comply  with  the  first  section  of  this  ordinance,  or  sufiering,  per- 
mitting or  allowing  his,  her  or  their  or  its  contractors,  agents  or 
servants  acting  under  his,  her,  their  or  its  direction  or  authority, 
to  violate  the  same,  shall  forfeit  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten 
dollars  or  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  every  such  violation. 
Passed  October  21  th,  1855. 

Approved, 

THOS.  DYER,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  ZiMMEKJsrAK",  City  ClerJc. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  Billiard  Tables^  Bowling  Alleys  and  Shooting 
Galleries. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordaiyied  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  no  person  or  persons  shall  have  or  keep  for  his 
or  their  gain  within  said  city,  any  billiard  table,  pin  alley,  nine  or 
ten  pin  alley,  ball  alley  or  shooting  gallery,  under  a  penalty  of  five 
dollars  for  each  and  every  month  each  and  every  billiard  table 
and  each  and  every  alley  in  any  pin  or  ball  alley  and  shooting 
gallery  shall  be  so  kept  and  used  by  him  or  them.  And  the 
owner  or  owners  of  any  building  in  which  any  such  billiard  table, 
ball  alley  or  shooting  gallery  shall  be  so  had  and  and  kept,  shall  be 
liable  to  the  like  penalties  as  above  prescribed. 

Sec.  2.    Section  9  of  Chapter  XXXVIII.  of  the  Revised  Ordi- 
nances, is  hereby  repealed :   Provided^  That  such  repeal  shall  not 
afiectany   penalty   or  forfeiture   heretofore   incm'red  under   said 
section,  or  any  suit  now  pending  for  any  such  penalty  or  forfeiture. 
Passed  November  11th,  1856. 

Appeoved, 

THOS.  DYER,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  ZiMMEEMAisr,  City  ClerJc. 


44  CONCERNING   FT.  WAYNE  AND  CHICAGO  R.  R. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Ameoiding  an  Ordinance  passed  February  I3th,  1854,  concerning 
the  Fort  Wayne  and  Chicago  Railroad  Company^  novo  the  Pitts- 
burgh, Ifort  Wayne  and  Chicago  Railroad  Company. 

Re  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago: 
That  permission  and  anthority  be  and  is  hereby  given,  the  Pitts- 
burgh, Fort  Wayne  and  Chicago  Raih-oad  Company  to  lay  down, 
maintain  and  operate  a  raikoad  track  or  tracks,  with  necessary 
switches,  turnouts,  and  side  tracks  in  the  streets  in  the  city  of 
Chicago,  running  north  and  south  on  the  center  line  of  section 
twenty-one,  in  township  thirty-nine,  north  of  range  fourteen  east, 
of  third  principal  meridian,  from  the  south  line  of  North  street  to 
the  north  line  of  Twelfth  street,  and  thence  in  Beach  street  to 
Harrison  street. 

Provided,  Said  railroad  company  shall  enter  into  bonds  with  the 
city  of  Chicago,  to  be  filed  in  the  clerk's  office  of  said  city,  condi- 
tioned that  said  railroad  company  will  afibrd  facilities  to  the  owners 
of  property  on  said  streets  running  north  and  soutli,  for  doing  busi- 
ness on  said  railroad,  by  putting  in  side  tracks  necessary  for  that 
purpose  and  operate  the  said  track,  so  as  to  carry  the  cars  of  said 
railroad  company,  and  of  all  other  connecting  railroads,  on  fair  and 
reasonable  terms,  to  and  from  said  property,  and  also  to  hold  and 
save  harmless  the  said  city  of  Chicago  from  all  damages  in  conse- 
quence of  this  act :  And  provided,  also.  That  nothing  herein  granted 
shall  prevent  the  Common  Council  of  the  city  of  Chicago  authoriz- 
ing the  construction  of  a  slip  or  slips  across  said  streets. 

And  provided  further.  That  the  privileges  hereby  granted,  shall 
be  enjoyed  subject  to  all  general  ordinances,  that  now  are  or  here- 
after may  be  in  force  concerning  railroads  in  said  city. 

Provided,  The  tracks  of  said  road  shall  be  so  laid  as  to  interfere 
as  little  as  possible  with  the  usefulness  of  said  streets,  as  road  or 
carriage-ways,  by  grading,  filling  and  planking  or  McAdamising 
them  in  such  way  as  to  allow  free  passage  for  carriages  across  and 
alongside  its  tracks,  and  in  such  manner  as  the  Common  Coimcil 
shall  direct,  and  also  by  changing  the  grade  of  said  streets  at  any 
time  it  may  be  ordered  by  the  Common  Council,  and  that  they  will 


EELATING  TO  JOLIET  AND  CHICAGO  R.  E.  CO.  45 

comply  with  all  the  restrictions  imposed  by  the  ordinance  to  which 
this  is  an  amendment. 

Passed  November  11th,  1856. 

Appeoved, 

THOS.  DYER,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  Zimmerman,   City  Clerk. 


AN   ORDINANCE 

Changing  the  titne  o^  co?nmeneement  and  ending  of  Puhlic  Schools. 

Pe  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That  the  terms  of  the  public  schools  shall  commence  on  the  second 
day  of  January,  the  Monday  after  the  last  Friday  in  April,  and  the 
first  Monday  in  September,  and  close  two  weeks  before  the  last 
day  of  Friday  in  April,  the  second  Friday  in  July,  and  the  twenty- 
first  day  of  December :  Provided,  That  when  the  second  day  of 
Januaiy  occurs  later  than  Wednesday,  then  the  schools  shall  not 
commence  till  the  following  Monday.  The  principals  of  the  several 
schools  shall,  during  one  week  of  the  spring  vacation,  superintend 
the  cleansing  of  the  school  buildings,  from  the  appropriations 
made  for  this  purpose. 

Passed  JVbvember  24:th,  1S5Q. 

Appeoved, 

THOS.  DYER,  3Jayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  ZiMMEEMAN,  City  Clerh 


AN   ORDINANCE 

Jn  relation  to  the  Jbliet  and  Chicago  Pailroad  Company. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago :  That  permission  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  given, 
and  granted  to  the  Joliet  and  Chicago  railroad  company  to  intro- 
duce said  railroad  mto  the  city  on  the  street  known  as  the  Archer 
Road,  from  a  point  commencing  on  the  section  line  between  sec- 
tions twenty-eight,  twenty-nme,  to  Grove  street,  and  from  thence 


46  RELATING  TO  JOLIET  AND  CHICAGO  E.  E.  CO. 

through  Grove  street  to  the  north  line  of  North  street;  and  to  use 
and  occupy  so  much  of  said  streets  as  may  be  necessary  for  the 
purpose  of  constructing,  maintaining  and  using  and  occupying  a 
single  and  double  railroad  track  through  said  streets,  with  such 
turnouts  and  branches,  extending  to  adjoining  lands,  as  may  be 
deemed  necessary  for  the  successful  use  and  occupation  of  said 
road,  upon  the  following  conditions : 

First — That  said  company  shall  plank,  pave  or  McAdamize  the 
whole  surface  of  said  streets  between  the  points  indicated  above, 
and  forever  maintain  such  planking,  paving,  or  McAdamizing  in 
good  order  and  condition. 

Second — That  the  place  occupied  by  said  Railroad  shall  not 
exceed  fifteen  feet  in  width  on  the  Archer  road  and  shall  not 
exceed  twenty-four  feet  in  width  on  Grove  street,  and  shall  be 
taken  from  the  north-west  side  of  Archer  road. 

Third — That  said  company  shall  so  construct  said  work,  that 
carriages  may  pass  along  said  streets,  and  may  also  conveniently 
cross  said  road. 

Sec.  2.  Upon  the  acceptance  of  this  ordinance  by  the  said 
company  (which  shall  be  within  ninety  days  from  the  passage 
hereof),  a  contract  embracing  the  provisions  herein  contained 
shall  be  executed,  sealed  and  delivered,  on  the  part  of  the  city 
of  Chicago,  by  the  mayor  thereof,  and  on  the  part  of  the  Joliet 
and  Chicago  Railroad  Company,  by  the  president  thereof,  both  in 
the  usual  legal  form. 

Sec.  3.  The  work  provided  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  done  under 
the  supervision  of  the  City  Superintendent,  or  such  other  officer  or 
agent  as  the  Common  Council  may  direct. 

Sec.  4.  Said  Railroad  Company  shall  save  the  city  harmless 
from  all  costs,  damages  and  suits  arising  from  the  occupation  of 
said  streets,  by  said  company,  from  any  and  all  persons  whatsoever. 

Sec.  5.  This  permission  is  granted  subject  to  all  general  rail- 
road ordinances  of  the  city  of  Chicago  now  in  force,  or  that  may 
hereafter  be  passed,  in  relation  to  crossing  streets,  rates  of  speed, 
and  other  matters  of  public  convenience  and  necessity. 

Sec.  6.  Said  railroad  company  shall  afford  all  necessary  facilities 
to  the  owners  of  property  on  said  streets  for  doing  business  on 


CONCEENma    SOUTH   BRANCH   CAl^-AL    CO.  4*7 

said  road,  by  putting  on  side  tracks  necessary  for  such  purposes, 
and  to  operate  said  tracks  so  as  to  carry  the  cars  of  said  road,  and 
all  other  railroads  connecting,  or  desirous  of  making  connections 
with  said  road,  on  fair  and  reasonable  terms  to  and  from  said 
property. 

Sec.  7.   Said  company  shall  make,  maintain,  and  keep  in  good 
repair,  all  road  and  slip  bridges  between  the  said  points. 
Passed  January  5th,  1857. 

Appkoved, 

THOS.   DYER,  J/ayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  ZiMMEEiTAN,  City  Cleric. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Alloioing  South  Branch  Canal  Company  to  lay  down  Railroad 
Tracks  in  streets  in  the  West  Division. 

Sectiois"  1.  JBe  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago,  That  permission  be,  and  is  hereby  granted  to  the 
Chicago  South  Branch  Canal  Company  to  construct,  maintain,  and 
operate,  in  the  West  Division  of  said  city  one  or  more  railroad 
tracks,  with  all  necessary  switches,  turnouts,  turntables,  in,  upon, 
or  through  any  and  all  lands  owned  or  controlled  by  said  company, 
between  the  Air  Line  Railroad  Track  and  South  street. 

Sec.  2.  Said  company  may  lay  down  said  track  or  tracks  across 
any  street  within  the  boundaries  aforesaid,  wherever  any  such 
street  crosses  their  intended  line  of  railroad ;  also  the  right  to 
construct  and  use  all  depots  necessary  to  accommodate  the  business 
of  said  company:  Provided,  That  convenient  crossings  be  made 
by  said  company,  where  the  said  tracks  cross  the  line  of  streets. 

Sec.  3.  Said  company  may  construct,  maintain  and  operate  one 
or  more  railroad  tracks  through,  or  upon,  any  lands  they  own  or 
control,  in  Green's  South  Branch  addition  to  Chicago ;  and,  also, 
occupy  such  portion  of  the  streets  in  said  addition,  for  railroad 
purposes,  as  were  provided  for  by  reservation  in  the  record  of  the 
plat  of  said  addition. 


48  CONCERNING   MILK 


Sec.  4.  Said  company  may  join  any  railroad  company,  in  the 
erection  and  use  of  any  railroad  bridge  heretofore  authorized,  or 
which  may  hereafter  be  authorized  to  be  constructed  across  the 
South  Branch  of  the  Chicago  river,  and  the  said  South  Branch 
canal  company,  and  any  railroad  company,  may  jointly  use  each 
other's  track,  or  tracks,  and  bridge  or  bridges,  within  the  city  and 
form  material  connections,  upon  such  terms  as  may  be  agreed 
u2>on  by  the  parties  interested. 

Sec.  5.  Said  company  may  run  their  trains,  by  locomotives, 
within  the  limits  herein  described,  at  a  speed  not  exceeding  six 
miles  per  hour,  subject  to  such  laws  and  ordinances  as  are  now  in 
force,  or  that  may,  from  time  to  time,  be  passed  by  the  Common 
Council  of  said  city,  establishing  and  regulating  speed  and  motive 
power  within  said  city. 
I*assed  January  5th,  1857. 

Approved, 

THOS.  DYER,  il/ayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  Zimmerman,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  Milk. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago :  That  no  person  shall  sell,  offer  to  sell  or  dispose  of 
any  impure,  unwholesome,  adultered  or  diluted  milk  in  said  city. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  or  persons  who  shall  violate  any  provision 
hereof  shall  pay  a  penalty,  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars,  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  to  the  city  of  Chicago  for  each 
offense. 

Passed  February  9th,  1857. 

Approved, 

THOS.  DYER,  Matjor. 
Attest, 

H.  "W.  Zimmerman,  City  Clerk. 


CONCERmTfG  CHICAGO  AND  MILTTAUKEE  E.  E.  CO.        49 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Amending  Article  11.^  Chapter  LIL,  of  the  Municipal  Zaios,  enti- 
tled, '■'■An  Ordinance,  in  relation  to  Schools  and  School  Officers.'^'' 

JBe  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago: 
That  all  that  portion  of  the  North  Division  of  the  city  of  Chicago, 
lying  east  of  the  center  of  Clark  street,  and  south  of  the  center  of 
Division  street,  and  now  comprehended  m  school  districts  numbers 
four  and  five,  shall,  hereafter,  be  known  and  designated  as  school 
district  number  ten  of  the  city  of  Chicago. 
Passed  February  2d,  1857. 

Approved, 

THOS.  DYER,  Ilaijor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  ZiMMEEiiAX,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  the  Chicago  and  3Iilwaukee  Railroad  Company. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago: 
That  the  Chicago  and  Milwaukee  Railroad  Company  be,  and  the 
same  is  hereby  authorized  to  lay  down  and  maintain  the  track  for 
its  railroad,  with  all  necessary  side  tracks  and  switches  through 
and  along  so  much  of  Jefferson  street  and  West  Kinzie  street  as 
shall  be  necessary  to  connect  the  track  of  said  railroad  with  the 
track  of  the  Galena  and  Chicago  Union  Railroad  on  Kmzie  street. 

Passed  February  'Id,  1857. 

Approved, 

THOS.  DYER,  Mayor. 

Attest, 

H.  "W.  ZiM]irEEMAx,  City  Clerk. 


50  AMENDATOEY    OF  CHAPTER  SIXTY-TWO. 

AN  ORDINANCE 

Amendatory  of  Chapter  LXII.  of  the  Municipal  Laws. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago:  That  section  fifteen  (15)  of  chapter  LXII.  of  the 
municipal  laws,  entitled  "An  Ordinance  Concerning  Vehicles,"  be 
amended  as  follows,  to  wit :  By  adding  at  the  end  of  said  section 
the  following  words  :  Provided,  That  hackney  coaches  may  stand 
in  front  of  any  or  either  of  the  hotels,  or  other  public  buildings,  in 
said  city,  in  case  the  owners  of  such  hackney  coaches  shall  first 
obtain  the  written  permission  of  the  occupant  or  occupants  of  such 
hotel  or  building  for  that  purpose,  and  the  written  permission  of 
the  mayor  of  said  city,  and  until  such  written  permission  shall  be 
revoked  by  such  occupant  or  the  said  Mayor. 

Sec.  2.  That  section  eighteen  of  said  ordinance  be  amended  by 
adding  at  the  end  of  said  section  the  following  words:  Provided, 
That  the  provision  of  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  licensed  hack- 
men  asking  or  soliciting  custom  for  his  hack  while  wearing  the 
badge  specified  in  said  section. 

Sec.  3.  Section  seventeen  of  said  chapter  is  hereby  repealed,  so 
far  as  the  same  prohibits  licensed  hackmen  or  drivers  from  being 
or  remaining  more  than  ten  feet  from  his  hack ;  and  section  sixteen 
is  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  4.  All  penalties  and  forfeitures  heretofore  incurred,  and  all 
suits  and  proceedings  now  pending,  for  the  recovery  of  any  penalty 
or  forfeiture  under  said  chapter,  shall  not  be  affected  by  the  repeal 
of  any  section  thereof  by  this  ordinance. 

Passed  January  \%th,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

THOMAS  DYER,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  Zimmeemajj,   City  ClerJc. 


ESTABLISHING-    STREET  GRADES. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Establishijig  the   Grades  of  Fine  and  Sand  Streets. 

Sectiox  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago:  That  in  that  part  of  the  north  division  bonnded 
north  by  Chicago  avenue,  east  by  Sand  street,  south  by  the 
Chicago  river,  and  west  by  Rush  street,  the  grades  of  sidewalks 
be  fixed  as  follows  : 

[These  heights  are  referred  to  the  plane  of  low  water,  A.  D.  1847, 
as  established  by  the  commissioners  of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan 
Canal,  the  said  plane  being  eight  feet  and  twenty -three  hundredths 
(8yVo)  below  the  water  table  of  "  Loomis''  Store,'*^  on  the 
south-west  corner  of  Clark  and  South  Water  streets.] 

Feet.    Dec. 

On  Pine  street,  at  the  corner  of  Chicago  avenue 11  0 

On  "  "  "         "         "          Superior  street 11  3 

On  "  "  "         "         "          Huron         "     11  6 

On  "  "  "         "         "          Erie             "     11  8 

On  "  "  "         "         "           Ontario       "     12  1 

On  "  "  half  way  between 12  3 

On  "  "  at  the  corner  of  Ohio              "     12  1 

On  "  "  "         "         "          Indiana       "     11  7 

On  "  "  "         "         "        •  Illinois         "     11  5 

On  "  "  "         "         "          Michigan    "     11  1 

On  "  "  "         "         "          N.  Water   "     10  9 

On  Sand  "  "         "         "           Chicago  avenue 10  5 

On  "  "  "         "         "           Superior  street 10  8 

On  "  "  "         "         "           Huron          "     11  1 

On  "  "  "         "         "           Erie              "     11  3 

On  "  "  "         "         "           Ontario        "     11  6 

On  "  "  half  way  between         "           "     11  8 

On  "  "  at   the  corner  of  Ohio            "     11  6 

On  "  "  "         "         "           Indiana        "     11  2 

On  "  "  "         "         "           Illinois         "     11  0 

On  "  "  "         "         "          Michigan     "     10  6 

On  "  "  "         "         "          K  Water    "     10  6 

Sec.  2.  The  heights  fixed  above  shall  be  the  grades  of  the  curb- 
stone of  the  sidewalk  at  the  four  corners  of  the  intersection  and 


52  SUPPEESSING    OBSCENE   PUBLICATIONS. 

the  grade,  and  the  grade  shall  be  drawn  straight  from  corner  to 
corner.     The  sidewalk   shall  incline  uj)ward,  from  the  curbstone 
toward  the  line  of  building,  at  the  rate  of  one  inch  in  three  feet. 
Passed  February  2d,  1857. 

Approved, 

THOMAS  DYER,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  Zimmerman,   City   Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  siqypress  Obscene  Publications.     . 

Whereas,  obscene,  licentious,  disreputable  and  demoralizing  pub- 
lications, tending  to  corrupt  society,  are  continually  hawked 
about  and  sold  in  the  public  streets  of  our  city,  producing  a 
state  of  morbid  recklessness  among  our  citizens,  and  is  encour- 
aging a  deplorable  system  of  moral  depravity  with  our  people, 
Therefore, 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  from  and  after  the  passage  and  due  publication 
of  this  ordinance,  any  person  or  persons,  of  what  age  soever,  who 
shall  be  engaged  in  selling,  delivering,  giving  away  or  in  any  way 
disposing  of,  or  in  any  way  whatsoever  giving,  or  attempting  to 
give,  information  of  the  contents  of  any  book,  pamphlet,  or  other 
publication,  in  writing  or  printed,  to  any  person  or  persons  of 
minor  or  mature  age,  within  the  city  of  Chicago,  containing 
immoral,  obscene,  licentious,  disreputable  and  demoralizing  ai'ticles 
of  information,  by  inuendo  or  otherwise,  against  any  citizen  or 
citizens  resident  of  said  city,  or  containing  any  dissolute,  unchaste, 
indecent,  disreputable  and  demoralizing  caricature  or  caricatures, 
directly  or  indirectly  reflecting  upon  any  person  or  persons,  or  that 
may  be  imderstood  as  reflecting  upon  any  citizen  or  citizens,  or 
that  may,  or  can  be,  or  is,  construed  as  applying  to  any  person  or 
persons  in  said  city,  in  any  manner  whatsoever,  shall  be  imme- 
diately arrested,  with  or  without  a  warrant,  as  disorderly  persons 
and  disturbers  of  the  public  peace,  by  any  police  officer,  on  or  off 
duty,  or  by  any  police  constable,  or  by  any  alderman  of  the  city  of 
Chicago,  who  shall  forthwith  bring  the  offender  or  offenders  before 


supPEESsma  obscene  public atiois^s.  53 

any  police  justice  of  the  said  city  for  trial,  as  in  other  cases,  and,  if 
adjudged  guilty  of  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section, 
he,  she  or  they,  for  every  violation  thereof,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum 
not  less  than  ten  dollars,  nor  over  fifty  dollars,  or  imprisoned  in 
the  county  jail  or  city  bridewell  for  a  period  not  less  than  twenty, 
nor  more  than  thirty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment, 
as  the  court  shall  direct. 

Sec.  2.  If  the  proprietor,  agent  or  agents,  servant  or  servants, 
or  any  other  person  or  persons,  minors  or  others,  engaged, 
employed,  or  otherwise,  being  in  and  about  any  bookstore,  news 
depot,  or  other  place,  public  or  private,  in  the  city  of  Chicago, 
shall  be  found  vending,  giving  away,  or  in  any  manner  disposing 
of,  or  causing  to  be  disposed  of,  or  causing  to  be  exposed  to 
public  notice,  or  placed  where  persons  can  procure  any  immoral, 
obscene,  corrupt,  licentious  and  demoralizing  publication,  written 
or  printed  ;  or  dissolute,  unchaste,  indecent,  disreputable,  demor- 
alizing caricature  or  caricatures,  intending  to  represent,  or  that,  in 
any  manner,  may  or  can  be  imderstood,  or  may,  or  can  be,  or  is, 
construed,  or  from  which  any  insinuation  may,  or  can  be,  or  is, 
gathered  to  mean  or  have  reference  to  any  person  or  persons  in 
the  city  of  Chicago,  said  ofi^ender  or  ofl:enders  shall  be  arrested 
and  brought  before  any  police  justice,  as  aforesaid,  and,  on 
conviction  of  the  violation  of  any  provision  of  this  section,  he, 
she  or  they  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  twenty-five 
dollars,  nor  more  than  seventy-five  dollars,  or  imprisonment  in  the 
county  jail  or  city  bridewell  not  less  than  thirty  days,  nor  more 
than  sixty  days,  or  by  both  said  fine  and  imprisonment,  at  the 
discretion  of  the  court :  Provided,  That  upon  the  conviction  of 
any  person  or  persons  who  shall  be  engaged  in  publishing,  aiding 
and  assisting,  in  any  manner,  the  publication,  and  causing  to  be 
distributed  any  publication  mentioned  or  designated  in  this 
ordinance,  he,  she  or  they,  for  every  violation  thereof,  shall  be 
fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  fifty  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred 
dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  or  city  bridewell,  for 
a  period  of  not  less  than  thirty  days,  nor  more  than  ninety  days, 
or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  as  the  court  may  decide. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  marshal,  captain  of 
police,  and  every  police  oflicer,  or  any  police  constable  of  the  city 
of  Chicago,  to  make  an  immediate  arrest  of  any  person  or  persons 
herein  mentioned  or  meant,  for  any  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this 


54  ESTABLISHING   DOCK    LINES. 

ordinance,  and  take  the  person  or  persons  so  arrested  before  one  of 
the  police  justices  of  said  city,  to  be  dealt  with  in  manner  herein 
provided,  and  to  retain  said  defendant  or  defendants  till  further 
ordered  by  the  court.  Aaiy  neglect  of  duty  on  the  part  of  any 
officer  mentioned  in  this  section,  or  refusal  to  carry  out  its  pro- 
visions, or  the  i^rovisions  of  this  ordinance,  shall,  on  complaint  to 
the  Common  Council,  or  to  any  alderman  of  said  city,  be  forthwith 
suspended  and  removed. 

Sec.  4.  If  any  publication  mentioned  or  designated  in,  or  is 
understood  to  come  under  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  is 
found  in  the  possession  of  any  person  or  persons,  or  association  of 
persons,  he,  she  or  they  shall  be  j)unished  according  to  the 
provisions  of  the  first  section  of  this  ordinance  :  Provided.,  That 
the  publisher  or  publishers,  abettor  or  abettors,  shall  be  punished 
in  the  manner  provided  in  the  last  clause  of  section  second  of  this 
ordinance. 

Sec.  5.  All  ordinances,  or  parts  of  ordinances,  conflicting  with, 
or  inconsistent  with,  this  ordinance,  is  hereby  repealed. 

Passed  February  23d,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

THOMAS  DYER,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  Zimmerman,  City  Ckr/c. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Establishing  Poch  Pities  of  South  PrancJi  from  center  of  Madison 
street  to  center  of  Van  Pur  en  street. 

Section  1..  Pe  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  city 
of  Chicago  :  That  the  dock  lines  on  the  south  branch  of  the  Chicago 
river  be  established  as  follows :  On  the  east  side  of  said  river 
commencing  at  a  point  m  the  center  of  East  Madison  street,  two 
hundred  and  fifty  three  (253)  feet  west  of  the  west  Ime  of  South 
Market  street  (South  of  Madison  street  produced),  and  running 
thence  in  a  straight  line  four  hundred  and  seventy-one  and  three- 
quarters  (471.75)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a  point  in  the  center  of 
Monroe  street,  two  hundred  and  eighty  (280)  feet  west  of  the  west 
line  of  Market  street :  thence  in  a  straight  line  four  hundred  and 


COEPOEATION  NEWSPAPEES.  55 

sixty-three  (463)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a  ijoint  in  the  center  of  Adams 
street,  two  hundred  and  forty-one  (241)  feet  west  of  the  west  Ime 
of  Market  street ;  thence  in  a  straight  line  four  hundred  and  forty- 
one  (441)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a  point  in  the  north  line  of  Jackson 
street,  one  hundred  and  twenty  and  six-tenths  (120.6)  feet  west 
of  the  west  line  of  Market  street ;  thence  in  a  straight  line  four 
hmidred  and  ninty-seven  (497)  feet,  move  or  less,  to  a  point  in  the 
center  of  Van  Bureu  street,  ninty-six  (96)  feet  west  of  the  west 
Ime  of  Market  street. 

On  the  west  side  of  the  river  commencing  at  a  point  in  the  center 
of  TVest  Madison  street  two  hundred  and  seventy-five  (275)  feet 
east  of  the  east  line  of  Canal  street,  running  thence  in  a  straight 
line  four  hundred  and  seventy  and  four-tenths  (470.4)  feet,  more  or 
less,  to  a  pomt  in  the  center  of  Monroe  street,  two  hundred  and 
fifty-five  (255)  feet  east  of  the  east  line  of  Canal  street;  thence  in 
a  straight  line  four  hundred  and  sixty-four  and  four-tenths  (464.4) 
feet,  more  or  less,  to  a  point  in  the  south  line  of  Adams  street,  two 
hundred  and  ninty-three  and  one-half  (293^)  feet  east  of  the  east 
Ime  of  Canal  street ;  thence  m  a  straight  line  four  hundred  and 
seventy-eight  (478)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a  point  in  the  center  of 
Jackson  street,  four  hundred  and  ten  (410)  feet  east  of  the  east  line 
of  Canal  street;  thence  in  a  straight  line  four  hundred  and  sixty- 
two  and  a  half  (462^)  feet,  more  or  less,  to  a  point  in  the  center 
of  Van  Biiren  street,  four  hundred  and  thirty  (430)  feet  east  of 
the  east  line  of  Canal  street. 

Passed  March  \Uh,  1857. 

Appkoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H,  W.  Zi]MMErv3iAX,  City   Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

In  relation  to  Corporation  Neiospaper. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago :  That  the  Chicago  Daily  Democratic  Press^  be,  and 
the  same  is  hereby,  designated  as  the  corporation  newspaper  of  the 
said  city  for  the  coming  year  and  until  another  is  duly  designated, 
and  that  the  following  rates  of  compensation  be  allowed : 


56  COEPOEATION  NEWSPAPER. 

For  publishing  tlie  Council  proceedings  thirty  cents  per  thousand 
ems,  or  such  price  as  may  be  usually  paid  as  the  first  cost  of  set- 
ting type  by  the  principal  printing  establishments  of  the  city. 
For  publishing  all  advertisements  except  as  hereinafter  specified, 
the  same  price,  viz :  the  cost  of  setting  the  type  shall  be  paid  for 
the  first  insertion,  and  an  equal  amount  for  each  subsequent  inser- 
tion of  said  advertisements.  The  said  newspaper  shall  also  be 
allowed  eight  cents  per  lot,  as  the  price  authorized  to  be  paid  for 
advertising  the  delinquent  tax  list  of  lots  and  lands,  authorized  by 
law  to  be  sold  for  taxes  or  assessments.  And  all  job  printing  shall 
be  charged  the  usual  prices  paid  for  said  work  in  the  principal  job 
printing  establishments  in  the  city. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  ordained,  That  the  Staats  Zeitmig,  a  daily 
newspaper  printed  in  the  German  language,  be  allowed  the  same 
price,  viz  :  the  cost  of  setting  the  type  for  publishing  the  Common 
Council  proceedings,  and  the  advertisements  of  the  city  deemed 
necessary  by  the  Comptroller,  for  the  first  insertion  and  the  same 
amount  for  each  subsequent  insertion. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  ordained,  That  any  other  daily  newspaper 
printed  either  in  the  German  or  English  language,  that  shall  publish 
the  Council  proceedings  and  the  advertisements  of  the  city,  deemed 
necessary  by  the  Comptroller,  shall  receive  one-half  the  cost  of  set- 
ting the  type.  But  the  proprietors  of  all  papers  availing  themselves 
of  this  provision,  shall  signify  their  willingness  to  do  so  within  ten 
days  from  the  passage  of  this  ordinance,  and  they  shall  continue 
to  publish  the  said  Council  proceedings  and  advertisements,  as 
deemed  necessary  by  the  Comptroller,  during  the  entire  year,  and 
they  shall  receive  no  compensation  for  their  services  until  the  close 
of  the  year.  For  publishing  notices  of  local  assessments  and  side- 
walk notices,  eight  dollars  shall  be  charged  by  the  city,  from  which 
a  deduction  of  twenty-five  per  cent,  shall  be  made,  or  the  sum  of 
six  dollars  shall  be  paid  to  the  said  corporation  newspaper,  the  same 
not  being  payable  until  the  money  or  so  much  as  may  be  necessary 
to  pay  said  bill,  for  publishing  such  local  assessments  and  sidewalk 
notices,  shall  have  been  collected  and  paid  into  the  city  treasury. 

Passed  March  16th,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

W.  H.  Zimmerman,  City  Clerh. 


EELATINa  TO  EEFORM  SCHOOL.  57 


AN  ORDINANCEi:-^=:;/:\KV 

Concerning  Public  Schools  JVo.''s  8  and  9. 

-Se  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That  the  City  Supermtenclent  and  the  SupermteiKlent  of  Schools 
be  dh-ected,  and  they  are  hereby  empowered  to  procure  plans  and 
specifications  with  estimates  of  cost,  for  two  new  Public  School 
buildings,  one  on  the  lot  now  occupied  by  school  No.  8,  and  the 
other  on  the  lot  occupied  by  school  No.  9,  and  that  they  be 
requested  to  report  their  action  under  this  ordinance  to  the 
Common  Council  at  as  early  a  day  as  possible. 
Tassed  Ilarch  23d,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Jlcnjor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismanic,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Tn  relation  to  the  Reform  School. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  the  board  of  guardians  of  the  Reform  School 
and  the  committee  on  schools  be,  and  they  are  hereby  authorized 
to  purchase,  with  the  concurrence  of  the  Council  for  the  city  of 
Chicago,  such  gi'ounds  as  they  may  deem  fit  and  proper  for  the 
pxu-poses  of  the  Reform  School,  and  pay  therefor  a  sum  not  exceed- 
ing twelve  thousand  dollars,  and  that  .the  same  be  purchased  at  as 
early  a  day  as  practicable. 

Sec.  2.  The  board  of  guardians  of  the  Reform  School,  and  the 
committee  on  schools  be,  ■  and  they  are  hereby  authorized  to 
proceed  at  once,  as  soon  as  the  grounds  authorized  to  be  purchased 
by  the  first  section  of  this  ordinance  shall  have  been  secured,  to 
lay  out  the  said  grounds  and  to  erect  proper  buildings  and  enclo- 


58  CONCERNING    VEHICLES. 

s^ui-^s,  ,|pr  tlj?  ac^cmqctatacn  of  tlie  institution,  and  that  the  school 
be,  removed  ,tkeiJ€  ,to  as  early  a  day  as  practicable. 
J*m^''Mut(i/Kmii,  1857.  • 
Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Jlaijor. 
Attest, 

11.  Kkeismann,   Citi/  Cleric. 


AN   ORDINANCE 

Additional  to  the  Ordinmice  eoncerning  Vehicles. 

Section  1.  J^e  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  every  licensed  owner  or  driver  of  any  hackney 
coach,  cab,  omnibus,  or  other  vehicle  for  the  conveyence  of  pas- 
sengers or  baggage,  shall,  while  acting  as  driver  of  such  vehicle, 
wear  conspicuously  uj)on  his  hat  or  cap,  a  badge  consisting  of  the 
word  "  Hacknian,"  or  other  word  designating  his  kind  of  vehicle, 
and  the  number  of  his  license.  The  letters  of  said  badge  shall  be 
of  brass  or  plated  metal,  not  less  than  one  inch  in  length  and  three- 
fourths  of  an  inch  in  width,  and  securely  attached  to  the  hat  or 
cap  of  such  driver  as  may  be  from  time  to  time  directed  by  the 
mayor. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  ordinance  or  who  shall  neglect  or  fail  to  comply  with  any  of 
the  requirements  hereof,  shall,  on  conviction,  pay  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  ten  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  may 
be  imprisoned  in  the  City  Bridewell  for  a  term  not  less  than  ten, 
and  not  exceeding  ninety  days,  at  hard  labor,  or  both,  in  the 
discretion  of  the  court,  before  whom  such  conviction  shall  be 
had,  and  his  license  may  be  revoked  in  the  discretion  of  the 
mayor. 

Passed  March  '^Oth,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor.  _ 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismatstk,   City  Clerk. 


CONCEENING    THE   POLICE    COURT.  59 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  the  Police  Court. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  the  two  justices  of  the  peace  in  the  city  of 
Chicago  hereinafter  designated  by  the  Common  Council  of  said  city, 
as  the  police  court  of  said  city  under  the  charter  of  said  city,  and 
the  amendments  thereto,  are  hereby  vested  with  jurisdiction  as 
justices  of  the  peace  for  one  year,  or  until  their  successors  be 
appointed,  in  all  actions  for  the  recovery  of  any  fine  or  penalty 
under  the  laws  of  said  city ;  and  all  ordinances,  by-laws,  or  police 
regulations  thereof,  as  provided  in  an  act  to  amend  the  act  entitled 
"An  Act  to  reduce  the  law  incorporating  the  city  of  Chicago 
and  the  several  acts  amendatory  thereof,  into  one  act,  and  to 
amend  the  same,  approved,  February  14th,  1851."  Approved, 
February  16th,  1857.  And  such  justices  shall  have  jjower  to 
fine  or  imprison  at  hard  labor,  or  solitary  confinement,  or  both 
in  their  discretion,  whenever  such  discretion  shall  be  vested  in 
them  by  said  act,  or  by  any  ordinance,  by-law,  or  police  regu- 
lation aforesaid,  and  shall  also  have  power  as  such  court  to 
commit  to  the  Reform  School  under  the  act  entitled  "An  Act 
to  amend  the  Act  entitled  'An  Act  to  reduce  the  law  incorporat- 
ing the  city  of  Chicago,  and  the  several  acts  amendatory  thereof, 
into  one  act,  and  to  amend  the  same,  approved,  February  14th, 
1851.'  "  A2)proved,  February  16th,  1857." 

Sec.  2.  Said  justices  of  the  peace  shall  constitute  and  be  styled 
"  The  Police  Court  of  the  city  of  Chicago."  One  of  said  justices 
shall  hold  a  session  of  said  court  daily,  Sundays  excepted,  and  on 
Sundays  when  requested  by  the  mayor  or  in  cases  when  necessary, 
at  the  court  house,  and  each  of  said  justices  shall  receive  a  salary 
of  two  thousand  dollars  per  annum,  to  be  paid  quarterly,  for  his 
services  in  said  court,  in  lieu  of  any  and  all  other  compensation 
whatever  accruing  from  the  business  disposed  of  in  such  court; 
and  before  they  shall  enter  upon  their  duties  as  such  police  court, 
they  shall  execute  and  file  in  the  office  of  the  comptroller  of  said 
city  an  express  relinquishment  in  favor  of  said  city,  of  all  fees, 
costs,  and  emoluments  whatever,  arising  from  the  business  of  said 
court.  / 


60  CONCEENUSTG  THE  POLICE  COTJET. 

Sec.  3.  The  clerk  of  the  police  court  shall  receive  an  annual 
salary  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars,  payable  monthly,  out  of  the  city 
treasury.  He  shall  give  a  bond  with  sureties  to  be  approved  by 
the  mayor  and  comptroller  in  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars,  for 
the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties  required  of  him  by  law. 

Sec.  4.  The  clerk  of  the  police  court  is  hereby  authorized  to 
appoint  a  deputy  clerk,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Common 
Council;  said  deputy  clerk  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  eight 
hundred  dollars,  payable  monthly,  out  of  the  city  treasury,  and 
shall  be  subject  to  the  discretion  of  the  police  court  until  his  duties 
shall  be  more  fully  prescribed  by  the  Common  Council. 

Sec.  5.  That  a  prosecuting  attorney  for  the  police  court  of  the 
city  of  Chicago  may  be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  with  the  approval 
of  the  Common  Council,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  manage  and 
prosecute  all  city  and  criminal  cases  and  prosecutions  before  said 
court,  and  such  attorney  shall  receive  a  salary  of  fifteen  hundred 
dollars  per  annum,  payable  monthly,  out  of  the  city  treasury  in 
lieu  of  all  other  fees  or  compensation  whatever,  for  his  services  in 
said  court. 

Sec.  6.  The  first,  second  and  third  sections  of  an  ordinance  enti- 
tled "An  ordinance  in  relation  to  police  justices  of  the  peace," 
passed  September  8th,  1851,  and  amended  by  revision  September 
16th,  1856,  and  an  ordinance  entitled  "An  ordinance  designating 
certain  justices  of  the  peace  to  exercise  the  jurisdiction  therein 
expressed,  passed  April  22d,  1856,"  and  all  ordinances  of  the  Com- 
mon Council  designating  other  justices  of  the  peace,  for  like  pur- 
poses, and  all  ordinances  inconsistant  with  the  provisions  of  this 
ordinance  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  7.  This  ordinance  shall  take  efiect  from  and  after  its  due 
publication  in  the  corj^oration  paper. 

Passed  March  ^mh,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kkeismann,  City  ClerJc. 


CONCEKNING   BADGES,  FIEE  DEPAETMETv^T.  61 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Regulating  the  distrihution  of  Badges  of  the  Fire  Department  of 
the  City  of  Chicago. 

Article  I.  JBe  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago :  That  all  members  of  the  fire  department  shall  here- 
after, when  on  duty,  wear  the  leathern  cap  heretofore  used,  or  a 
badge  as  heremafter  provided. 

Aet.  II.  The  badge  mentioned  in  the  preceding  section  shall 
be  made  of  Prince's  metal,  bearing  the  words  "Chicago  Fii-e  De- 
partment," and  each  badge  shall  bear  a  distinct  number  in  raised 
figures  thereon,  of  white  metal.  The  badge  to  be  worn  by  exempt 
firemen  as  provided  for  in  section  third  of  this  ordinance,  shall  be 
composed  of  white  metal,  bearing  figures  thereon  of  Prince's  metal, 
in  all  other  respects  to  conform  to  the  badge  hereinbefore  described 
for  active  members  of  the  fire  department ;  said  badges  shall  be  struck 
from  dies,  which  shall  be  the  property  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and 
shall  be  deposited  in  the  custody  of  the  comptroller  of  the  said  city, 
and  all  of  such  badges  shall  be  nmnbered  as  the  committee  of  fire 
and  water  may  direct. 

Art.  III.  The  said  badges  shall  be  deposited  with  the  comp- 
troller, who  shall  have,  by  and  with  the  advice  of  the  chief  engineer, 
sole  charge  of  the  distribution  of  the  same,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  comptroller  to  keep  a  register  of  all  persons  who  may  at  any 
time  receive  any  such  badge,  of  the  date  of  its  delivery,  the  number 
of  such  badge,  and  the  number  of  the  company  of  which  the  person 
receiving  such  badge  shall  be  a  member,  with  his  signature ;  and 
also  of  all  badges  delivered  to  exempt  firemen. 

Art.  IV.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  engineer  to  certify  in 
writing  to  committee  on  fire  and  water  the  names  of  all  persons 
who  may  be  elected  firemen,  whereupon  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
comptroller  to  furnish  to  each  of  such  firemen  one  of  said  badges, 
and  to  each  of  such  exempt  firemen  as  may  be  entitled  thereto  by 
the  laws  of  the  State  of  Illinois. 

Art.  V.  The  badges  of  the  fire  department  herein  mentioned 
shall  be  the  exclusive  property  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  when 
any  member  of  the  fire  department  shall  resign  or  be  removed 


62  coisrcERisriJsrG  badges,  fire  department. 

therefrom,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  foreman  and  secretary  of  the 
company,  to  which  such  member  was  attached,  to  make  a  return 
of  such  removal  or  resignation  forthwith  to  the  chief  engineer, 
and  the  chief  engineer  shall,  on  the  first  day  of  every  month, 
report  to  the  comptroller  the  names  of  such  members  of  the  fire 
department  as  shall  have  resigned,  or  been  removed  since  his  last 
report,  and  shall,  with  said  report,  return  to  the  comptroller  the 
badges  worn  by  such  members. 

Art.  VI.  If  the  foreman  and  secretary  of  any  company,  or 
either  of  them,  shall  fail  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  the  pre- 
ceding section,  in  relation  to  the  return  of  badges,  no  return  of 
members  elected  by  such  company  shall  be  received  therefrom, 
unless  good  and  satisfactory  cause  shall  be  shown  to  the  com- 
mittee, why  said  badges  have  not  been  returned ;  and  shall  any 
member  of  the  fire  department  lose  his  badge,  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  committee  on  fire  and  water  to  inquire  into  the  circum- 
stances of  the  case,  and,  unless  they  are  satisfied  that  such  loss 
was  without  faiilt,  on  the  part  of  such  member,  they  shall  have 
power  to  suspend  or  remove  him  from  the  department,  in  their  dis- 
cretion ;  and,  in  case  the  loss  be  satisfactorily  accounted  for  to  said 
committee,  they  shall  have  power  to  grant  a  new  badge  with  a 
difterent  number. 

Aet.  VII.  Any  member  of  the  fire  department,  or  exempt  fire- 
man, who  shall  violate  any  of  the  sections  of  this  ordinance,  shall 
be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than 
twenty-five  dollars,  and  all  fines,  so  imposed,  shall  be  paid  to  the 
treasurer  for  the  use  of  the  Firemen's  Benevolent  Association. 

Art.  VIII.  Any  person  not  a  member  of  the  fire  department 
who  shall  falsely  represent  any  of  the  members  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment of  this  city,  or  who  shall  maliciously  or  with  intent  to 
deceive,  use  or  imitate  the  badge  herein  before  described,  or  the 
cap  worn  by  the  fire  department,  shall  be  subject  to  be  fined,  not 
less  than  five  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned 
not  exceeding  three  months,  or  both. 
Passed  A2:>ril  18th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor, 
Attest, 

H.  W.  Keeismann,  City  Clerk 


CONCEENING  DUTIES  AND  POWERS  OF  POLICEMEl^T.       63 


AN    ORDINANCE 

To  authorize  the  Chicago  and  3IihcauJcee  Railroad  Company 
to  lay  dovm  a  tracJc  for  its  railroad  in  Jefferson  and  West 
JTinzie  streets. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Chicago :  That  the  Chicago  and  Milwaukee  Raih-oad  Company  is 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  lay  down,  use  and  maintain 
the  track  of  its  railroad  through  so  mucli  of  Jefferson  street  and 
West  Kinzie  streets  as  shall  be  necessary  to  connect  the  track  of  the 
railroad  of  said  company  with  the  track  of  the  Galena  and  Chicago 
Union  Railroad  Company  on  West  Kinzie  street ;  said  track  to  be 
laid  down  and  used  by  said  company  and  its  agents  as  not  unneces- 
sarily to  interfere  with  the  public  use  of  said  streets,  and  the 
location  of  said  track  to  be  fixed  by  the  agents  of  said  company, 
under  the  direction  of  the  city  superintendent,  and  said  road  to  be 
kept  in  repair*,  at  the  expense  of  said  company,  and  the  grades  to 
be  altered  when  directed  by  the  Common  Council  or  city  Super- 
intendent. 

Sec.  2,  In  consideration  of  the  right  granted  to  it  by  the  fore- 
going section,  said  company  shall  fill  said  street  up  to  grade  with 
ground,  or  suitable  material,  and  shall,  also,  plank  or  pave  said 
street,  when  required  so  to  do,  by  order  of  the  Common  Council. 

Passed  April  20th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  Keeis^iann,  City  Clerk. 


AN    ORDINANCE 

Concerning  the  Duties  and  Poioers  of  Policemen. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago :  That  the  marshal,  captain  of  the  police,  lieuten- 
ants, sergeants  and  policemen  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  shall  have 


64  COT^CEENINa   MUNICIPAL    LAWS    OF   CHICAGO. 

authority  to  arrest  all  persons  in  the  city  found  in  the  act  of  violat- 
ing any  ordinance  of  said  city,  or  aiding  and  abetting  in  any  such 
violation,  to  serve  any  process  civil  or  criminal,  original,  mesne  or 
final,  issued  by  either  of  tbe  justices  of  the  peace,  designated  by 
the  Common  Council  as  the  justices  of  the  police  courts  of  the  city 
of  Chicago. 

Passed  April  20th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  llmjor. 
Attest, 

H.  W.  Keeismann,  Citi/  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Amendatory  of  Chapter  LI.  of  the  Municipal  Laios  of  the  City 
of  Chicago. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  the  comptroller,  city  treasurer  and  city  collector 
shall  appoint  annually  three  assistant  city  collectors,  being  one  for 
each  division  of  said  city,  who  shall  devote  their  time  as  such  col- 
lectors to  the  collection  of  street  taxes  and  the  performance  of  such 
duties  as  shall  be  necessary  in  securing  a  faithful  performance 
of  labor  upon  the  streets  in  their  respective  divisions. 

The  compensation  of  such  coHectors  for  their  services  shall  not 
exceed  twenty-five  cents  on  each  street  tax  collected,  and  said 
comptroller,  treasurer  and  collector  are  authorized  to  make  such 
contracts  and  take  such  bonds  from  such  assistant  collectors  as 
they  shall  deem  expedient  and  necessary  to  secure  a  faithful 
performance  of  their  duties. 

Sec.  2.  The  persons  appointed  or  hereafter  to  be  appointed  to  col- 
lect the  street  taxes  in  lieu  of  labor  to  be  performed  in  the  several 
divisions  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  are  hereby  authorized  to  seiwe  the 
usual  notices  of  the  street  commissioners  upon  the  persons  subject 
to  such  tax  on  the  performance  of  street  labor,  which  notice  shall 
be  in  substance  as  follows  : 

MR. Sir  : — You  are  hereby  notified  and  required  to  appear  at  the  street 

commissioner's  office  at  t  o'clock,  A.  M.,  on  — ,  and  bring  with  you  a  spade  or 


CONCEKmNG   MUNICIPAL    LAWS  OF  CHICAGO.  65 

shovel  for  the  purpose  of  laboring  on  the  streets  and  alleys  as  you  shall  then  and 
there  be  directed  by  me ;  in  ease  you  shall  fail  so  to  appear  and  labor  you  are  hereby 
required,    on   or  before  the  first  day   above  mentioned  to  call  upon   the  assist. 

ant  collector  of  street  taxes  of  the  division,  and  pay  to  him  the  sum  of  one 

dollar  and  fifty  cents  in  cash,  otherwise  you  shall  pay  the  sum  of  two  dollars  if  paid 
before  suits  are  commenced ;  if  not,  you  shall  be  liable  to  be  sued  for  the  sum  of 
three  dollars  without  further  notice. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  collector,  upon  payment  of  the 
aforesaid  sum  of  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents,  in  accordance  with  the 
notice,  by  any  person  required  to  labor  upon  the  streets  and  alleys  as 
aforesaid,  to  issue  to  such  person  a  I'eceipt  for  the  same  signed  by 
the  city  treasurer,  specifying  it  to  be  in  full  satisfaction  for  all  labor 
due  from  such  individual  upon  the  streets  and  alleys  for  the  year 
for  which  such  payment  is  made  ,*  which  receipt  shall  be  a  suflicient 
discharge  to  the  person  to  whom  it  is  issued  for  the  year  mentioned 
therein. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  be  deemed  a  suflicient  service  of  the  notice  men- 
tioned in  the  preceding  section,  if  the  same  shall  be  plainly  printed 
or  written,  or  both,  and  left  either  at  the  place  of  residence,  place 
of  business,  or  with  the  employer,  overseer  or  clerk  of  any  estab- 
lishment, work  shop  or  place  where  the  person  to  be  notified  shall 
be  employed  or  engaged  in  business;  and  all  persons  in  said  city 
are  hereby  required  to  give  information  to  said  collectors  when 
asked  so  to  do  by  said  collectors,  as  to  the  names,  residence 
occupation,  age  and  place  of  business  or  employment,  of  all  persons 
in  their  premises  and  employment,  to  aid  the  said  collectors  in  the 
performance  of  their  duties. 

The  said  collectors  shall  be  commmissioned  and  qualified  as 
police  constables  during  their  continuance  in  office  as  such  col- 
lectors, but  shall  not  exercise  their  authority  and  office  as  constables 
except  in  the  prosecution  of  suits  for  the  violation  of  the  provisions 
of  this  ordinance,  or  the  ordinance  to  which  this  an  amendment ; 
such  collectors  are  hereby  required  to  prosecute  all  suits  for  the 
penalty  for  non-performance  of  such  labor,  and  any  person  who 
shall  tail  to  perform  any  duty  required  by  this  ordinance,  or  who 
shall  violate  any  provision,  clause  or  section  hereof,  shall  pay  a  fine 
not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars.  Section  eight  of  the  ordi- 
nance to  which  this  ordinance  is  an  amendment,  and  all  parts  of 
said  ordinance  conflicting  with  the  provisions  hereof  are  hereby 
repealed. 


66  TO   PREVENT   KILLING   BIRDS. 

This  ordinance  to  take  effect  and  be  enforced  from  and  after  its 
passage. 

Passed  A2)ril  21th,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTII,  Jlayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann^,   Citi/  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  j}rohibit  bathing  in  waters  of  LaJce  Michigan,  and  to  preserve 
pure  the  water  of  the  "  Chicago  Hydraulic  Company y 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  no  person  shall  hereafter  bathe  in  the  waters 
of  Lake  Michigan  at  any  place  between  the  government  piers, 
so  called,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Chicago  river  and  the  piers  of 
the  Chicago  Hydraulic  Company ;  any  person  violating  the  fore- 
going provision  shall  forfeit  to  the  city  not  less  than  five  nor  more 
than  twenty-five  dollars  for  every  such  violation. 

Passed  April  2lth,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismajstn,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  Prevent  the  Killing  of  Birds  in  the  City  of  Chicago. 

SECTiOiSr  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago:  That  the  killing  of  birds  by  fire-arms,  bow  and 
arrows,  stones,  or  in  any  other  mode,  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  is 
hereby  prohibited.  Every  person  who  shall  hereafter  kill  or  wound, 
or  attempt  to  kill  or  wound,  by  the  use  of  fire-arms,  bow  and 
arrow,  pelting  with  stones,  or  otherwise,  any  bird  within  the  city 
limits  (such  bird,  so  killed  or  wounded,  not  being  the  property  of 
the  person  so  offending),  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  city,  for  every 
bird  so  killed  or  wounded,  and  for  every  such  attempt  to  kill  or 
wound,  not  less  than  five,  nor  more  than  ten  dollars. 


FrXIXG    GEADES.  67 

Sec.  2.  Eveiy  person  who  shall  enter  upon  any  private 
inclosure  or  public  ground  belonging  to  the  city,  for  the  purpose 
of  doing  any  act  prohibited  in  the  preceding  section ;  and  every 
person  who  shall  shoot  an  arrow,  or  throw  a  stone,  or  club,  or  other 
missile,  at  any  bird  within  any  private  grounds,  or  public  parks, 
squares  or  grounds,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  city  not  less  than 
five,  nor  more  than  ten,  dollars  for  each  offense. 

Sec.  3.   Every  person  who  shall  be  convicted  for  a  second  time 
of  any  offense,  or  of  any  penalty  herein  before  mentioned,  who  is 
under  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  may,  in  the  discretion  of  the  police 
court  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  be  sentenced  to  the  reform  school. 
Passed  April  21th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Fixing   Grades  in  the  South  Division  of  the  City  of  Chicago. 

Section  1.  JBe  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the 
City  of  Chicago  :  That  in  that  part  of  the  South  Division  lying 
north  of  the  south  line  of  Twelfth  street,  the  grade  of  the  flag-stone 
of  sidewalks  be  fixed  as  follows  : 

[These  heights  are  referred  to  the  plane  of  low  water  in  A.  D. 
1847,  as  established  by  the  trustees  of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan 
Canal,  the  said  plane  being  eight  and  twenty-three  one  hun- 
dredths (8.23)  feet  below  the  water  table  of  Loomis'  Store,  on 
the  south-Avest  corner  of  Clark  and  South  Water  streets.] 
On  Market  street,  at  corner  of  Lake  street,  eleven  and  one-half 

(11.50)  feet. 
On  Market  street,  at  corner  of  Randolph  street,  twelve  (12)  feet. 
On  Randolph  street,  from  south  branch  of  Chicago  river  to  State 

street,  twelve  (12)  feet. 
At  corners  of  Wabash  Avenue,  twelve  and  one-half  (12.50)  feet. 
At  corners  of  Michigan  Avenue,  fourteen  (14)  feet. 
On  Washington  street,  from  south  branch  of  Chicago  river  to 

State  street,  twelve  and  a  ha^f  (12.50)  feet. 


68  FIXING    GEADES. 


At  corners  of  Wabasli    Avenue,   twelve    and  seventy-five    one- 

hundreclths  (12, 75)  feet. 
At  corners  of  Michigan  Avenue,  fourteen  (14)  feet. 
On  Madison  street,  from  south  branch  of  Chicago  river  to  Wabash 

Avenue,  thirteen  (13)  feet. 
At  corners  of  Michigan  Avenue,  fourteen  (14)  feet. 
On  Market  street,  at  and  south  of  Monroe  street,  eleven  and  a  half 

(11.50)  feet. 
On  Franklin  street,  at  and   south  of  Monroe  street,  eleven  and 

seventy-eight  one-hundredths  (11.78)  feet. 
On  Wells  street,  at  and  south  of  Monroe  street,  twelve  and  seven 

one-hundredths  (12.07)  feet. 
On  Sherman  street,  at  and  south  of  Monroe  street,  twelve  and 

twenty-six  one-hundredths  (12.26)  feet. 
On  La  Salle  street,  at  and  south  of  Monroe  street,  twelve  and 

thirty-six  one-hundredths  (12.36)  feet. 
On  Griswold  street,  at  and  south  of  Monroe  street,  twelve  and 

forty-five  one-hundredths  (12.45)  feet. 
On  Clark   street,  at  and  south   of  Monroe   street,   twelve    and 

sixty- four  one-hundredths  (12.64)  feet. 
On  Buffalo  street,  at  and  south  of  Monroe,  twelve  and  eighty-three 

one-hundredths  (12.83)  feet. 
On  Dearborn  street,  at  and  south  of  Monroe  street,  twelve  and 

ninety-five  one-hundredths  (12.96)  feet. 
On  Edina  Place,  at  and  south  of  Monroe  street,  thirteen  and  two 

one-hundredths  (13.02)  feet. 
On   State   street,   at  and  south  of  Monroe   street,  thirteen  and 

twenty -two  one  hundredths  (13.22)  feet. 
On  Wabash  Avenue,  at  and  south  of  Monroe  street,  thirteen  and 

sixty-six  one-hundredths  (13.66)  feet. 
On  Michigan  Avenue,  at  and  south  of  Monroe  street,  fourteen 

(14)  feet. 

Sec.  2.  The  heights  fixed  above  shall  be  the  grades  of  the  flag- 
stone of  the  sidewalk  on  the  oiiter  edge,  at  the  four  corners  of  each 
intersection.  The  sidewalks  shall  incline  upwards  from  the  curb- 
stone toward  the  line  of  building  at  the  rate  of  one  inch  in  three 
feet.  On  all  streets  running  east  and  west,  at  and  south  of  Monroe 
street,  the  grade  shall  be  a  straight  line  drawn  on  each  block,  be- 
tween the  heights  fixed  above  for  the  north  and  south  streets ;  and 
on  all  streets  from  Monroe  street  to  the  river,  running  north  and 


AMETTDATOEY    OF    CHAPTER   FIFTY-THEEE  b\) 

south,  the  grade  shall  be  a  straight  line  drawn  on  each  block, 
between  the  heights  fixed  above  for  the  east  and  west  streets ;  and 
on  those  portions  of  east  and  west  streets  south  of  Madison  street, 
lying  between  the  south  branch  of  the  Chicago  river  and  the 
nearest  north  and  south  street,  the  grade  shall  descend  from  east 
and  west  at  the  rate  of  one  inch  per  one  hundred  feet. 

Sec.  3.  The  grade  of  "Water  street,  at  Market  street,  shall  be 
eleven  feet,  running  east  at  an  equal  grade,  on  a  level,  until  it  inter- 
sects the  present  grade.  The  grade  of  Lake  street,  at  Market 
street,  shall  be  eleven  and  one-half  feet,  running  east  at  an  equal 
grade,  on  a  level,  until  it  intersects  the  present  grade. 

Sec.  4.  Assessors  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Common  Council  to 
assess  the  benefits  and  also  the  damages  to  such  parties  as  have 
built  in  conformity  to  the  previously  established  grade,  whenever 
the  property  owners  on  the  several  streets  petition  to  have  the  same 
raised  to  the  grade  established. 

Fassed  May  4th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Imjor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreisiiakn",   Citi/  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Ameoidatory  of  Chapter  LIIL,  Art.  2,  of  the  3Iunici])al  Laios, 
Fassed  Sept.  15th,  1856. 

Section  1.  Fe  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago:  That  all  awnings  hereafter  erected  in  any  lamp 
district  in  said  city,  shall  be  covered  with  cloth,  leather,  or  some 
light  and  pliable  substance,  and  securely  attached  to  the  building, 
and  properly  supported  by  iron  or  other  proper  metallic  fastenings 
and  supports,  and  no  awnings  shall  hereafter  be  erected  or  repaired 
in  such  districts,  either  wholly  or  in  part,  of  wood. 


TO  CONCEENING    AWmiSrGS,    SIGNS,    ETC. 

Sec.  2.  No  clothing,  goods,  merchandise,  wares,  signs,  boxes  or 
other  article  or  thing,  shall  be  placed  in  front  of  any  store,  shop, 
or  other  place  in  said  city,  on  or  above  the  sidewalk,  or  in  or  upon 
any  alley,  so  as  to  occupy  more  than  three  feet  next  to  the  build- 
ings or  premises  on  such  sidewalk  or  alley,  or  of  the  space 
above  the  sidewalk  or  alley,  and  such  articles  or  things  as 
may  be  placed  on  the  sidewalk  shall  not  be  more  than  three 
feet  high  above  the  top  of  the  sidewalk,  and  the  articles  or 
things  that  may  be  hung  out  or  placed  above  the  sidewalk  shall  be 
so  placed  or  hung  that  the  lowest  part  of  such  articles  or  things 
shall  be  at  least  seven  feet  and  six  inches  above  the  top  of  the 
sidewalk,  and  shall  not  swing  more  than  three  feet  from  the 
building.  No  such  article  or  thing  shall  be  permitted  to  remain 
on  any  sidewalk  or  alley  after  ten  o'clock  at  night,  or  on  Sunday ; 
nor  shall  any  owner  or  occupant  of  any  lot  or  premises  lease  the 
space  aforesaid,  or  permit  or  allow  the  same  to  be  used  or  occupied, 
except  for  his  or  their  own  business  ;  nor  shall  said  space  be  used 
for  selhng  any  article  or  thing  whatever. 

Sec.  3.  All  signs,  devices,  articles  and  things,  now  placed,  hung 
or  suspended,  or  that  may  be  hereafter  placed,  hung  or  suspended, 
upon  or  above  any  sidewalk,  or  in  or  upon  any  alley,  in  violation  of 
the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  shall  be  immediately  removed ;  and 
any  person  who  shall  violate  any  provision,  clause  or  section,  of 
this  ordinance,  or  who  shall  interfere  v>^ith  any  officer  or  employe 
of  the  city  while  enforcing  any  provision  of  this  ordinance,  shall, 
on  conviction,  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  three  dollars  nor  exceed- 
ing one  hundred  dollars,  and  may  be  imprisoned  in  the  city 
bridewell  not  exceeding  thirty  (30)  days,  in  the  discretion  of  the 
court  or  magistrate  before  whom  such  person  may  be  prosecuted 
or  tried. 

Sec.  4.  All  parts  of  the  ordinance  to  which  this  is  an  amendment, 
and  of  all  other  ordinances  of  said  city  conflicting  with  the  provis- 
ions of  this  ordinance  are  hereby  repealed.  This  ordinance  shall 
take  efiect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 

Passed  May  Uth,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismanm,  City  Cleric. 


AMEND ATOET  OF  CHAPTEE  THIRTEEN.  Yl 

AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  the  Fire  Department. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  there  shall  be  a  general  review  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment, engines,  and  all  other  fire  apparatus,  by  the  mayor  and 
aldermen  once  in  each  year,  dm-ing  the  month  of  September,  at 
such  time  as  the  chief  engineer  shall  direct. 

Sec.  2.  All  ordinances  and  parts  of  ordinances  inconsistent  with 
the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

Passed  May  Uth,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3fayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Amendatory  of  Chapter  XIIL  of  the  Municipal  Laws. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago: 
That  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  ordinance  the  city  attorney 
shall  receive  a  salary  of  twenty-five  hundred  dollars  per  annum 
from  the  city  treasury,  in  lieu  of  all  other  fees  or  compensation 
•whatever. 

Passed  May  2Mh,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3fciyor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismaxn,  City  Clerk. 


72  DUTIES  OP  CITY  COMPTROLLER,  ETC. 

AN    ORDINANCE 

Defining  the  duties  of  the   City  Comptroller  and  other  officers. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of 
Chicago  :  That  the  city  collector  shall  receipt  for  all  moneys  for  any 
licenses  that  may  have  been  granted,  or  may  hereafter  be  applied 
for  or  granted  under  the  authority  of  said  city  upon  any  account 
whatever.  He  shall  also  receipt  for  all  auction  dues,  and  all  pen- 
alties incurred  by  the  keeping  of  ball  alleys  and  billiard  tables 
within  said  city,  also  receipt  for  all  moneys  paid  in  from  the  licenses 
of  theatres,  shows,  museums,  and  other  entertainments  of  like  char- 
acter. His  receipt  for  the  same  shall  be  a  discharge  to  the  person 
to  whom  given,  to  the  extent  and  purport  thereof,  but  no  person 
shall  be  deemed  to  be  licensed  in  any  case  until  the  issuing  of  the 
license  in  due  form  as  required  by  the  ordinances  of  the  city. 

Sec.  2.  The  city  collector  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  receipts 
given  by  him,  which  record  shall  show  when,  to  whom,  on  what 
account  given,  and  up  to  what  time  said  receipts  extend,  and  all 
moneys  received  by  him  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  shall  be 
deposited  in  the  city  treasury  at  least  as  often  as  once  a  week. 

Sec.  3.  Whenever  it  shall  appear  from  the  license  register  kept 
by  the  city  clerk,  or  the  books  of  the  city  collector,  that  any  per- 
son holding  any  license  or  permit  of  any  kind,  or  privilege  granted 
by  the  city,  has  failed  to  pay  the  amount  due  thereon,  whether  for 
a  penalty  for  billiard  tables  (reckoning  five  dollars  for  every  table 
per  month),  or  other  kind  of  penalty,  license,  fine,  debt  or  liability 
whatever,  the  clerk  or  city  collector  (as  the  case  may  be),  shall 
report  the  fact  to  the  mayor,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  promptly 
revoke  said  license,  permit  or  privilege. 

Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  comptroller,  before  draw- 
ing any  warrant  on  the  treasurer,  to  take  a  receipt  from  the  person 
or  persons  in  whose  favor  it  is  drawn,  and  this  receipt  shall  in  all 
cases  state  that  said  sum  of  money  is  in  full  of  all  demands  what- 
ever, both  in  law  and  equity,  against  the  city  to  that  date :  Pro- 
vided, That  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  cases  where  reservations 
on  contracts  are  made,  the  better  to  secure  their  jjrompt  completion. 
Neither  shall  he  j)a,y  any  claim  ordered  paid  by  the  Common  Coun- 


WATER  COMMISSIONEES    TO    BOEEOW  MOKEY.  TS 

cil,  until  a  copy  of  the  order  shall  be  furnished  him,  approved  by 
the  mayor  and  attested  by  the  clerk. 

Sec.  5,  Chapter  twelfth  of  city  ordinances  entitled  "  An 
ordinance  in  relation  to  City  Marshal,"  and  all  other  ordinances  or 
parts  of  ordinances  inconsistent  with  this  ordinance,  are  hereby 
rei^ealed. 

8ec.  6.  The  comptroller  shall  require  all  officers  charged  in  any 
manner  with  the  receipt  of  city  moneys,  to  deposit  the  same  in  the 
city  treasury  weekly  or  monthly  as  he  shall  deem  best,  and  report  the 
same  to  him,  with  a  statement  showing  all  the  sources  from  which 
the  said  moneys  were  received,  accompanied  with  the  treasurer's 
receipt  for  the  amount  deposited. 

Sec.  7.  The  comptroller  shall  reqxiire  all  city  officers,  before 
incurring  liabilities  in  their  respective  departments,  to  ascertain 
from  him  whether  appropriations  have  been  made  by  the  Common 
Council  to  meet  the  proposed  liabilities,  and  that  they  shall  not 
incur  any  liabilities  whatever,  imless  expressly  ordered  by  the 
Common  Council  or  the  written  order  of  the  comptroller. 

Passed  May  25th,  1857. 

Appkoved, 

JOHN   WENTWORTH,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kkeisma:n-n,  City  ClerJc. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

AutJiorizing  the  Board  of    Water  Commissiojiers  to  borrow  the 
sum  of  money  herein  nieoitioned. 

Whereas,  The  Board  of  Water  Commissioners  of  the  city  of 
Chicago,  are  desirous  of  loaning  an  additional  sum  of  money  to 
the  amount  of  two  hundred  thousand  (200,000)  dollars,  and  to 
issue  bonds  therefor,  and  have  made  a  report  to  the  Common 
Council  of  said  city,  under  the  date  of  May  18,  1857,  setting 
forth  and  specifying  in  detail  the  nature,  amount  and  kind  of 
work  proposed  to  be  executed,  etc.,  together  with  the  estimated 
cost  of  the  same,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section 
six  of  an  act  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
entitled  "  An  Act  in  amendment  of  and  supplemental  to  an  Act 


T4  AMENDATOET    OF    CHAPTER  TWENTY-TWO. 

entitled  '  An  Act  to  incorporate  the  Chicago  City  Hydraulic 
Company,'"  approved  February  15,  1855,  and  praying  the 
Common  Council  to  approve  the  issuing  of  the  bonds  to  the 
amount  aforesaid,  by  the  board  of  water  commissioners  for  the 
objects  and  j)urposes  specified  in  their  said  report,  therefore, 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Cotnmon  Council  of  the  city 
of  Chicago  :  That  the  Common  Council  do  hereby  approve  of  the 
issuing  by  the  said  board  of  water  commissioners,  of  the  amoiint 
of  bonds  required  by  the  estimate  set  forth  in  their  said  report,  for 
the  purposes  and  objects  therein  contained,  and  in  accordance  with 
the  provisions  and  requirements  of  section  five  of  the  act  mentioned 
in  the  preamble  hereof,  provided  the  whole  amount  of  bonds  so 
issued  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

Passed  May  25th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN   WENTWORTH,  3fayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kriesmann,  City  ClerJc, 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Amendatory  of  Chapter  XXII.  of  the  Municipal  Laws. 

Section-  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago:  That  all  that  part  of  the  south  division  of  said  city 
embraced  within  the  following  limits,  shall  be  hereafter  known  as 
the  fire  limits  of  the  south  division  :  Beginning  at  the  center  of  the 
Chicago  river,  at  its  junction  with  the  lake,  thence  south-westerly 
along  the  lake  shore  to  the  centre  of  Adams  street,  thence  west  on 
the  center  of  Adams  street  to  the  center  of  State  street,  thence 
north  on  the  center  of  State  sti-eet  to  the  center  of  Monroe  street, 
thence  west  on  the  center  of  Monroe  street  to  the  center  of  the 
Chicago  river,  thence  down  the  center  of  Chicago  river,  to  .the 
place  of  beginning. 


FOE   THE   PEEVENTION   OF    GAMBLIIS'G.  T5 

Sec.  2.  Permission  is  hereby  given  to  all  owners  and  occupants 
of  buildings  in  the  fire  limits,  to  raise  wooden  buildings  to  the 
established  grade,  and  to  build  basements  or  cellars  of  brick  or 
stone  under  the  buildings  so  raised. 

Passed  Maij  2bth,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H,  I\jjEisMA>^N,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

For  the  prevention  of  GamUing. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago:  That  any  person  who  shall  be  a  frequenter,  visitor, 
inmate,  door-keeper,  solicitor,  runner,  agent,  abettor  or  pimp,  of  or 
for  any  house,  store,  grocery,  hall,  room,  or  any  other  place  where 
are  kept  any  E.  O.  tables,  keeno  table,  faro  bank,  shuffle  board, 
bagatelle,  playing  cards,  pigeon  holes,  or  any  other  instrument, 
device  or  thing,  used  for  gambling,  w^hereon  or  with  which  money, 
liquor  or  other  articles,  shall  be  played  for,  shall,  upon  conviction, 
be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  five  dollars  and  not  exceeding  one 
hundred  dollars,  or  imprisoned  in  the  bridewell  for  a  term  not 
more  than  ninety  days,  or  both,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court  before 
whom  si;ch  conviction  shall  be  had. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  mayor  forthwith  to  revoke 
any  license  given  to  any  person  or  persons  w^ho  shall  violate  any 
provision  of  this  ordinance,  or  of  Chapter  XXXVIII.  of  the 
municipal  laws,  to  which  this  ordinance  is  additional. 

Passed  June  1st,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kkeismanx,  City  Clerk. 


DUTIES    OF   CITY    SUPERINTENDENT. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Defining  the  duties  of  the  City  Superintendent  of  Public  Works. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago :  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  public 
works  to  inspect,  measure  and  receive  (or  cause  the  same  to  be 
done),  all  lumber,  timber,  stone  and  other  materials  used  by  or 
belonging  to  the  city,  for  its  streets  or  other  public  improvements, 
and  to  keep  a  full  and  accurate  account  of  the  quantities  of  the 
same,  and  from  whom  received,  and  to  report  the  same  to  the 
comptroller  immediately. 

Sec.  2.  He  shall  have  the  entire  supervision  of  all  bridges  and 
ferries,  and  of  the  tenders  and  laborers  employed  on  and  about  the 
same. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  be  the  further  duty  of  said  superintendent  to 
superintend  paving,  planking,  McAdamizing,  or  otherwise  improv- 
ing, streets  and  alleys  within  the  city ;  to  deliver,  or  cause  to  be 
delivered,  all  materials  required  for  such  improvements,  the 
delivery  of  which  is  not  otherwise  provided  for. 

Sec.  4.  He  shall  superintend  all  work  under  contracts,  in  which 
contracts  the  city  of  Chicago  is  a  party,  and  no  contractor  or  other 
person  employed  on  any  public  work  for  the  city  shall  receive  the 
compensation  allowed  him  or  them  on  such  contract,  or  any  part 
thereof  (unless  otherwise  provided  for),  without  presenting  to  the 
comptroller  a  "wiitten  certificate  of  said  superintendent,  showing 
the  amount  due  upon  such  contract  or  work. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall  be  the  further  duty  of  said  superintendent  to  make 
all  estimates  for  local  improvements  which  may  be  required  by  any 
committee,  provided  such  requisition  shall  be  in  writing,  and  shall 
state  the  nature  of  improvement  clearly ;  and  no  assessment  for 
local  improvements  shall  be  hereafter  made  or  ordered,  except  the 
amoimt  to  be  so  assessed  be  based  upon  an  estimate  made  by  said 
superintendent  as  aforesaid. 

Sec.  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  superintendent  to  superintend 
all  local  improvements,  the  cost  of  which  has  or  may  be  assessed. 


CONCEENING  A  BATHING  HOUSE,  YT 

and  to  keep  an  accurate  account  of  the  cost  and  expense  of  each 
local  improvement  separately. 

Sec.  7.  The  said  superintendent  shall  perform  such  other  duties 
as  the  Common  Council  may  from  time  to  time  direct. 

Sec.  8.  Sections  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  V,  8,  of  an  ordinance  entitled  an 
ordinance    creating   the    office    and   defining  the    duties  of  city 
superintendent,  passed  September  24th,  1851,  are  hereby  repealed. 
Passed  June  1st,  1857. 

Appkoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismank,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Fixing  the  Salary  of  the  City  3Iarshal. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That  from  and  after  the  taking  efiect  of  the  ordinance  entitled 
"  An  ordinance  defining  the  duties  of  the  city  comptroller  and 
other  officers,  passed  the  25th  of  May,  1857,"  the  salary  of  the 
city  marshal  shall  be  two  thousand  dollars  per  annum,  in  lieu  of  aU 
other  compensation  whatever  after  such  date. 
Passed  June  8th,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,   City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concernijig  a  Bathing  House. 

Sectioj^  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago:  That  permission  be  and  is  hereby  granted  to  Augus- 
tus Martin  to  construct  and  build  a  public  bathing  house  between 
the  track  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  and  the  break-water,  east 
of  said  track,  opposite  the  foot  of  Washington  street,  in  the  city  of 


CONCEENING  FIRE  WOOD. 


Chicago,  said  bathing  house  to  be  of  a  nice  and  sightly  ai^pear- 
ance,  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  in  length 
and  fifty  feet  in  width  and  twelve  feet  in  heighth  above  the  water, 
exclusive  of  the  ornamental  parts  thereof  And  to  build  a  proper 
and  suitable  walk  from  the  shore  to  said  bathing  house.  Said 
walk  shall  be  considered  as  an  extention  of  Washington  street  and 
pass  across  or  underneath  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  track. 

Sec.  2.  Said  bathing  house  and  said  walk  shall  be  so  constructed 
as  to  prevent  persons  from  bathing  outside  and  exposing  themselves. 

Sec.  3.  The  said  bathing  establishment  shall  be  managed  and 
conducted  in  an  orderly,  proper  and  decent  manner,  and  shall  be 
used  for  no  other  business  than  for  bathing. 

Sec.  4.  The  power  is  hereby  expressly  reserved  to  the  Common 
Council  of  said  city  by  order,  resolution,  ordinance  or  otherwise, 
to  control  the  said  bathing  establishment,  and  the  manner  of  con- 
ducting the  same,  and  to  make  such  regulations  in  relation  thereto 
as  the  interest  of  the  public  may  in  the  opinion  of  the  Council 
require. 

PassedJune  1st,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Mayor.    ' 
Attest, 

H.   Kkeismantst,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  Fire    Wood. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago:  That  the  mayor  of  said  city  with  the  concurrence  of 
of  the  Common  Council,  shall  annually  appoint  one  inspector  of 
fire  wood  in  said  city,  and  such  assistant  inspectors  as  may  be 
deemed  by  the  Common  Council  necessary  for  the  public  interests, 
■who  shall  hold  their  oflices  during  the  municipal  year  in  which 
they  shall  be  appointed,  and  imtil  their  successors  shall  be  appoint- 
ed and  qualified,  or  until  removed  by  order  or  resolution  of  the 
Common  Council. 


CO]S"CEENmG     FIEE    WOOD.  T9 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  "svood  insjDector  and  assist- 
ants to  measure  any  and  all  loads  or  piles  of  wood  in  said  city,  on 
request  of  any  person  or  persons,  and  to  give  a  certificate  to  tlie 
person  or  persons  making  such  request,  stating  the  amount,  the 
date  of  measuring,  for  whom  measured,  the  kind  and  description 
thereof  for  the  following  prices  : 

For  each  wagon  load,  pUe  or  parcel  containing  a  cord  or  less, 
ten  cents  ;  for  each  pile  or  load  containing  more  than  one  cord  and 
not  exceeding  two  cords,  twenty  cents  ;  for  each  additional  cord  in 
the  same  load  or  pile,  five  cents.  One  hundred  and  twenty-eight 
cubic  feet  shall  be  deemed  a  cord  of  wood,  and  the  length  of  wood 
shall  be  measured  from  point  to  but,  and  not  from  point  to  point. 

Sec.  3.  Boxes  for  the  sale  or  delivery  of  sawed  and  split  wood 
shall  contain  one  hundred  and  fifty  cubic  feet,  measured  on  the  inside 
for  one  cord,  and  seventy-five  and  a  half  (7o|-)  cubic  feet,  measured 
in  like  manner,  for  half  a  cord,  and  thirty-eight  and  one  quarter  cubic 
feet  for  a  quarter  of  a  cord.  If  wood  shall  be  sold  or  kept  for  sale 
in  racks  or  wagons,  or  otherwise,  and  shall  be  piled  lengthwise  of 
wagon  or  rack,  there  shall  be  only  two  lengths  of  the  wood  upon  the 
wagon  or  in  the  rack,  and  such  rack  shall  be  four  or  eight  feet  long, 
and  of  a  width  and  height  sufficient  to  contain  one-fourth,  one-half, 
thi-ee-fourths  of  a  cord,  or  one  cord,  measured  in  the  inside  of  the 
rack. 

And  if  such  wood  shall  be  piled  or  placed  crosswise  of  the 
wagon  or  rack,  such  wagon  or  rack  may  be  either  four,  six,  eight 
or  ten  feet  in  length,  and  shallhave  two  stakes  behind  and  two  stakes 
before  the  place  for  piling  the  wood,  firmly  and  permanently 
placed  in  the  rack  or  wagon,  and  of  such  height  as  to  contain 
one-fourth,  one-half,  three-fourths  of  a  cord,  or  one  cord  or  more 
in  like  proportions,  and  all  such  boxes,  wagons  or  racks  used  for 
selling  or  exhibiting  for  sale,  any  wood  in  said  city,  shall  be 
inspected,  measured  and  numbered  by  the  city  sealer  of  weights  and 
measures,  and  the  owner  or  owners  thereof  shall,  at  all  times,  when 
such  wagons  or  racks  shall  be  in  use,  keep  his  or  their  name  and  num- 
ber, and  the  quantity  of  wood  such  box,  rack  or  wagon  will  contain, 
plainly  and  distictly  painted  thereon  in  letters  of  at  least  one  and 
a  half  inches  in  size.  And  all  wagons,  boxes,  racks  or  vehicles, 
used  at  and  about  the  wood  yards  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  all 
places  for  the  measuring  of  wood  in  said  city,  for  retail,  shall  be 
made,  measured  and  marked  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 


80  CONCEENIIS'G    FIEE    WOOD. 

this  section.  And  the  sealers  of  weights  and  measures  shall  at 
least  as  often  as  once  each  month,  and  on  the  first  of  each  month, 
furnish  the  city  comptroller  with  a  complete  list  of  the  boxes, 
vehicles  and  racks,  and  places  so  measured. 

Sec.  4.  No  person  in  said  city  shall  sell,  exhibit  for  sale,  or  offer 
to  sell,  by  the  load,  any  fire  wood  in  said  city,  except  in  accord- 
ance with  the  provisions  of  section  three  of  this  ordinance,  unless 
such  wood  shall  have  been  previously  measured  by  the  said  wood 
inspector,  or  one  of  his  assistants. 

Sec.  5.  The  following  are  hereby  designated  places  for  wood 
stands  in  said  city : 

In  the  center  of  Market  street,  at  least  twenty  (20)  feet  from  the 
side  walks  between  Randolph  and  Madison  streets.  In  the  center 
of  State  street,  between  Water  and  Randolph  streets,  at  least  thirty 
(30)  feet  from  the  side  walks.  In  the  center  of  Randolph  street, 
between  Desplames  and  Halsted  streets,  at  least  thirty  (30)  feet 
from  the  sidewalks  and  market.  In  the  center  of  Michigan  street, 
at  least  twenty  (20)  feet  from  the  sidewalk  and  mai-ket,  between 
Clark  and  Wolcott  streets. 

And  no  person  shall  be  permitted  to  occupy  any  of  such  stands 
with  a  load  of  fire  wood,  unless  the  vehicle,  box,  rack,  or  wagon 
shall  be  made,  measured,  marked,  and  numbered,  as  required  in 
section  three  of  this  ordinance,  or  unless  such  load  shall  have 
been  measured  by  one  of  the  said  wood  inspectors. 

Sec.  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  wood  inspector,  or  one  or 
more  of  his  assistants,  under  his  direction,  at  all  reasonable  times 
to  attend  at  each  of  the  wood  stands  in  said  city,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  measuring  wood.  They  shall  be  furnished  with  pi'oper 
books,  at  the  expense  of  the  city,  under  the  direction  of  the  city 
comptroller,  in  which  shall  be  printed  proper  blank  certificates  and 
margins,  and  it  shall  be  their  duty  to  enter  therein  all  necessary 
facts  pertaining  to  their  business,  and  such  as  shall  be  required, 
from  time  to  time,  by  the  said  comptroller,  and  which  books  and 
entry  shall,  at  all  times,  be  subject  to  his  inspection,  and  shall  be 
delivered  to  him  for  safe  keeping  when  required. 

Sec.  7.  The  wood  inspector  and  assistants,  while  on  duty,  are 
required  to  wear  an  appropriate  badge,  marked  Wood  Inspector, 
and  no  person  driving  any  wood  wagon  or  vehicle  occupying  or 


coNCERNnsra  fire  wood.  81 

standing  about  any  wood  stand  or  other  place  in  said  city,  or  upon, 
or  near  any  such  load  of  wood,  shall  refuse  to  give  his  name 
and  residence,  or  to  answer  any  proper  questions  of  such  wood 
inspector  or  assistant,  in  regard  to  any  load  or  loads  of  wood,  or 
the  owner  or  owners  thereof;  nor  shall  any  driver  or  drivers, 
owner  or  owners  of  any  wood  wagons,  boxes  or  vehicles,  refuse 
to  show  any  certificate  of  measurement  of  any  such  loads,  wagons 
or  vehicles,  or  show  a  different  or  fraudulent  certificate  thereof  to 
any  ofiicer  of  said  city,  or  person  requesting  to  purchase  any 
load  of  wood,  or  commit  any  other  fraudulent  or  deceitful  practice 
whatever ;  and  all  persons  selling  wood  in  any  other  manner  than 
as  provided  in  section  three  of  this  ordinance,  shall  deliver  the 
certificate  of  measurement  thereof  to  the  purchaser. 

Sec,  8.  All  such  wood  inspectors  and  assistants  are  hereby 
appointed  policemen  of  said  city,  and  clothed  with  all  the  powers 
of  policemen,  while  wearing  their  badges  in  the  discharge  of  their 
duty  as  such  wood  inspectors  and  assistants  ;  but  shall  not  be 
entitled  to  pay  as  policemen,  except  by  order  or  resolution  of  the 
Common  Council. 

Sec.  9.  Any  person  who  shall  fail  or  neglect  to  comply  "^"ith 
any  or  either  of  the  requirements  of  this  ordinance,  or  who  shall 
violate  any  section,  clause  or  provision  of  any  section  thereof, 
shall,  on  conviction,  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  three  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dollars.  And  if  such  person  shall  be  the  owner 
or  driver  of  any  vehicle,  licensed  by  the  city,  his  license  may  be 
revoked  in  the  discretion  of  the  mayor. 

Sec.  10.  Chapters  twenty-three  and  twenty-nine,  of  the  munici- 
pal laws  are  hereby  repealed:  Provided,  That  such  repeal  shall  not 
afi'ect  any  suit,  action,  or  cause  of  action,  now  existing  under  the 
said  ordinance.  This  ordinance  shall  take  eflect  from  and  after  its 
passage. 

Passed  June  Sth,  A.  D.  1857. 
Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Ilmjor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismann,  Citi/  Clerk. 


82  CONCEENING   THE   FIEE   DEPAETMEISTT. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Amendatory  of  Article  III.,  Chapter  XXXII.,  3Iunicipal  Laios. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago :  That  hereafter  any  person  in  said  city  shall  put  out, 
remove,  or  allow  to  be  put  out  or  removed,  from  the  premises  or 
place  occupied  or  owned  by  him,  into  any  street,  alley  or  other 
public  place,  in  said  city,  any  person  having  the  small  pox  or  any 
other  infectious  or  pestilential  disease ;  but  such  owner  or  occu- 
pant shall  immediately  report  such  case  to  the  health  officer,  or 
some  member  of  the  board  of  health,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
cause  the  person  so  having  such  disease  to  be  immediately  removed 
to  the  hospital  or  other  proper  place. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  clause  of  the  preced- 
ing section,  or  neglect  to  perform  any  duty  therein  required,  shall 
be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall  pay  a  penalty  of 
not  less  than  ten  dollars,  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and 
may  be  confined  in  the  City  Bridewell,  not  exceeding  sixty  days, 
in  the  discretion  of  the  court  or  magistrate,  before  whom  such 
person  shall  be  convicted. 
Passed  July  Qth,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismank,  City  Clerk 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  Amend  an  Ordinance  concerning  the  Fire  Department. 

SectiOjST  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the 
City  of  Chicago:  That  section  two,  of  article  one,  chapter 
twenty-two,  of  the  Municipal  Laws,  be  amended  in  the  last  line 
thereof  by  inserting  between  the  words  "done"   and  "without" 


CONCERNma    SEWERS.  83 

tlie  words  "in  a  plain  and  substantial  manner."     This  ordinance 
shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  j)assage. 
Passed  July  6th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3fai/or. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,  City  Clerl: 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  liejyeal  the  Ordinance  establishing  Fire  limits  in  the   West 
Division. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That   so  much   and   such   j)arts   of  chapter   twenty-two   of  the 
Municipal  Laws  as  establish  fire  limits  in  the  West  Division  be, 
and  the  same  are,  hereby  repealed. 
Passed  July  6th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN"  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismanx,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  Seicers. 

Section  1.  £e  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the 
City  of  Chicago :  The  Board  of  Water  Commissioners,  the 
Chicago  Gas  Light  and  Coke  Company,  and  the  Board  of 
Sewerage  Commissioners  of  this  city,  shall  not,  after  the  date  of 
this  ordinance,  lay  down  any  pipe,  sewer  or  drain  in  any  of  the 
streets,  alleys,  lanes,  or  public  ways  of  this  city,  without  giving  to 
each  other  a  written  notice  of  at  least  ten  days  prior  to  the 
commencement  of  such  work,  of  their  intention  to  lay  down  such 
pipe,  sewer  or  drain,  together  with  either  an  accurate  plan  or  clear 
description  of  the  same ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  pai'ties 
receiving  such  notice  to  acknowledge  the  same,  in  writing,  forth- 
with.    In  case  any  damages  or  expense  shall  be  caused  to  either 


84  coisrcEKN'iisrG  sewees. 

of  said  parties,  in  consequence  of  a  default  or  neglect  to  give  such 
notice,  such  damage  or  expense  shall  be  paid  by  the  party  so  in 
default.  In  all  cases  of  repairs  or  alterations  by  either  of  the  said 
parties,  by  which  repairs  or  alterations  any  pipe,  scAver  or  drain 
belonging  to,  or  under  the  charge  or  supervision  of,  either  of  said 
parties,  shall  be  uncovered,  undermined,  or  in  any  way  exposed  to 
injury,  the  i:»arty  making  such  repairs  or  alterations  shall  give 
immediate  notice  of  the  same  to  the  party  in  charge  of  such  pipe, 
sewer  or  drain  as  may  be  affected  thereby ;  and  any  party  failing 
to  give  such  notice,  shall  be  liable  for  all  injuries,  damages  and 
repairs  resulting  from  such  want  of  notice. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  who  shall  uncover,  excavate,  under  or 
around  the  brick  or  pipe  sewers  laid  in  this  city,  for  any  purpose 
whatever,  without  the  written  consent  of  said  Board  of  Sewerage 
Commissioners,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten 
dohars,  and  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars.  The  person  or  persons 
by  whom  the  said  work  is  done,  and  their  employes,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  section. 

Sec.  3.  Any  person  who  shall  make  any  connection  with,  or 
opening  into,  the  brick  or  pipe  sewers  laid  in  this  city,  without 
having  obtained  a  written  permit  in  each  case  from  the  said 
sewerage  commissioners,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
ten  dollars,  and  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  which  fine  shall  be 
recoverable  against  the  owner  of  the  property  in  which  such  drain 
is  made,  or  against  the  person  or  persons  making  the  same,  or 
causing  the  same  to  be  made,  or  their  employes. 

Sec.  4.  Any  person  who  shall  lay,  alter  or  disturb  any  part  of 
a  house  drain,  catch  basin,  or  strainer  of  said  drain  or  drains, 
cesspool  or  water  closet,  connected  with  any  brick  or  pipe  sewer 
belonging  to  said  city,  without  being  duly  licensed  to  perform  the 
same  by  said  sewerage  commissioners,  shall  be  a  subject  to  a  fine 
not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  and  not  less  than  ten  dollars,  for  each 
offense,  which  shall  be  recoverable  against  the  person  or  persons 
performing  the  work,  or  their  employes. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  any  person  or  persons  construct- 
ing or  using  any  private  drain,  sewer  or  cesspool,  water  closet  or 
pipe,  or  other  pipe  connecting  with,  or  emptying  into,  any  brick 
or  pipe  drain  or  sewer  belonging  to  said  city,  to  construct  and 


COlSrCEKinNG    SEWEES.  85 

use  the  same  strictly  in  conformity  with  the  orders  and  directions 
of  the  said  Board  of  Sewerage  Commissioners,  which  orders  and 
directions  shall  be  given  in  writing  for  such  purpose ;  and  any 
person  who  shall  construct  or  use,  or  cause  to  be  constructed  or 
used,  any  such  drain,  sewer,  cesspool,  or  water  closet  pipe,  in  a 
different  manner  than  that  so  ordered  and  directed  by  said  board, 
or  in  violation  of  the  orders  of  said  board,  shall  be  subject  to  a 
fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  which  shall  be  recoverable  against 
the  person  or  persons  so  constructing  or  using  the  said  sewer, 
drain  or  pipe,  or  their  employes;  and  the  owner  of  the  lot  or 
lots,  or  premises,  in  which  said  work  is  constructed  or  used,  shall 
be  deemed  and  considered  as  authorizing  such  construction  or 
use,  and  liable  to  such  penalty. 

Sec.  6.  Any  owner  or  occupant  of  premises  who  shall  deposit, 
or  cause  to  be  deposited,  any  substance,  such  as  garbage,  rags, 
sand,  earth,  or  such  other  substances  as  said  commissioners  may 
find  it  necessary  to  exclude,  in  any  of  said  sewers,  pipes  or  house 
drains,  gvillies  or  catch  basins  connected  with  said  sewers,  or 
allow  any  such  substance  to  flow  into  the  same,  in  such  manner  as 
to  obstruct,  or  tend  to  obstruct,  the  same,  shall  be  liable  to  a 
penalty  of  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars,  and  not  less  than  five  dollars, 
for  each  offense,  and  shall  be  liable  for  all  expenses  incurred  on 
account  of  removing  said  obstructions. 

Sec.  7.  The  said  sewerage  commissioners  and  their  authorized 
agents  shall  have  free  and  unobstructed  access  to  any  part  of  the 
premises  where  house  drains,  cesspools,  or  water  closets,  con- 
nected with  or  draining  into  said  servers,  are  laid,  for  the  purpose 
of  examining  the  construction,  condition  and  usage  of  the  same, 
and  making  necessary  alterations  and  repairs,  at  any  time  of  the 
day  between  the  hours  of  seven  o'clock  A.  M.  and  six  o'clock 
P.  M. ;  and  any  owner,  occupant,  or  other  person,  refusing  to 
allow  any  ofiicer  or  agent  of  said  board  access  to  any  premises, 
for  such  purposes,  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty 
dollars,  nor  less  than  five  dollars. 

Sec.  8.  Any  person  who  shall  willfully  or  maliciously  damage, 
injure  or  obstruct  any  sewer  or  house  drain,  cesspool,  or  water 
closet  pipe,  laid  or  constructed  under  the  direction  of  said 
sewerage  commissioners,  shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty  not  exceed- 
ing   one    hundred   dollars,   nor    less    than    ten   dollars,   and  to 


86  CONCEENING    PENALTIES. 

imprisonment  not  exceeding  ninetv  days,  and  to  pay  all  expenses 
incurred  on  account  of  repairs  and  damages  arising  from  the  same. 

Sec.  9.    All  ordinances,  or  parts  of  ordinances,  conflicting  with 
the  above  are  hereby  repealed. 
Passed  July  20th,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  JIayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismann,  Citi/  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  Penalties. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  whenever  any  person  shall  pay  to  the  city 
collector  the  siim  of  twenty-five  dollars,  upon  or  before  the  first 
day  of  July  of  any  year,  for  each  billiard  table,  nine  or  ten  or  other 
pin  alley,  or  shooting  gallery  that  he  shall  own,  keep,  or  in  any 
way  have  in  his  posession,  the  city  comptroller  shall  give  such  per- 
sons a  commutation  certificate,  stating  the  number  of  such  tables, 
alleys,  or  galleries,  upon  which  such  payment  shall  be  made,  which 
shall  be  in  full  discharge  of  any  and  all  penalties  or  fines  or  other 
dues  under  any  ordinance  of  said  city,  for  owning,  keeping,  or  in  any 
way  having  in  possession  the  number  of  tables,  alleys,  or  galleries, 
specified,  until  the  first  day  of  the  next  succeeding  July:  Provided^ 
That  any  person  who  shall  not  procure  a  certificate  of  commutation 
for  each  and  every  such  table,  alley,  and  gallery,  or  who  shall  not 
voluntarily  call  at  the  collector's  office  and  pay  the  full  twenty-five 
dollars  for  each  additional  one  that  he  may  own,  keep,  or  in  any 
way  have  in  his  possession,  by  subsequent  purchase  or  otherwise, 
during  any  fraction  of  a  year  or  in  any  other  way  attempt  to 
deceive  the  city  authorities,  his  certificate  of  commutation  shall  be 
revoked  by  the  mayor  and  he  be  liable  to  the  same  fines  and 
penalties  as  if  this  ordinance  had  not  passed. 

Sec.  2.  All  persons  must  elect  before  the  first  day  of  July, 
whether  they  will  avail  themselves  of  the  provisions  of  this 
ordinance,  except  for  the  present  year,  when  the  election  may  be 
made  at  any  time  within  ten  days  after  its  passage. 


VACATING   PAET    OF   POLK   AND    EOLKER    STS.  87 

Sec.  3.  Said  certificate  of  commutation  shall  be  conspicuously- 
posted  in  the  room  of  such  tables,  alleys,  or  galleries ;  and  when- 
ever any  person  shall  play  thereon  for  money,  liquor,  or  any  other 
article  or  thing,  the  mayor  shall  pi-omptly  revoke  said  certificate  of 
commutation. 

Passed  July  20th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Mmjor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismaistn,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Vacathiff  a2^art  of  Polk  and  Holker  Streets. 

Section  1.  JBe  it  ordained  by  the* Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  so  much  and  such  parts  of  Rolker  and  Polk 
streets  as  run  through  blocks  38,  39,  44,  45,  in  the  canal  trustees 
subdivision  of  the  W.  ^  and  W.  ^  of  the  N.  E.  i,  Section  17, 
T.  39,  R.  14,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  discontinued  and 
vacated. 

Sec.  2.  Before  the  discontinuance  and  vacation  as  aforesaid 
shall  take  place,  the  owners  or  proprietors  of  the  blocks  of  land 
above  mentioned  shall  make,  execute,  and  acknowledge  a  plat  of 
said  blocks,  showing  the  donation  to  the  city  of  Chicago  of 
three  public  parks  of  the  size,  dimension,  and  shape,  marked 
upon  the  plat  herewith  submitted ;  also  said  owners  or  pro- 
prietors shall  cause  all  streets  running  through  said  blocks  or 
either  of  them  to  be  well  graded,  and  shall  improve  said  parks 
with  a  handsome  post  and  board  or  picket  fence,  and  plant  said 
parks  with  suitable  shade  trees  at  their  own  proper  cost  and 
expense. 

JPassed  Jitly  20th,  1851. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  llayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismank,  City  Clerk. 


VACATING   PAET    OF    CAEKOLL    STEEET. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  vacate  a  part  of  Carroll  street  in  Block  Fourteen^  Old  Town, 
and  loiden  a  part  of  Alley  next  north  in  same  block. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That  the  width  of  Carroll  street  between  North  Market  street  and 
the  North  branch  of  the  Cliicago  river,  in  the  old  town  of  Chicago, 
be  so  far  vacated  as  to  reduce  the  width  thereof  from  eighty  to 
fifty  feet,  which  reduction  of  thirty  feet  is  to  be  taken  from  the 
south  side  of  said  street,  and  that  the  width  of  the  alleyway 
running  through  the  center  of  block  fourteen,  in  said  old  town 
which  is  now  eighteen  feet,  be  increased  to  forty-eight  feet,  and 
that  the  thirty  feet  thus  vacated  on  the  southerly  side  of  Carroll 
street  shall  become  vested  in  the  owners  of  the  respective  lots 
fronting  thereon,  provided  that  such  owners  shall,  within  one  year 
from  the  passage  hereof,  cede  to  the  city  of  Chigago,  thirty  feet 
from  the  south  side  of  all  the  lots  bounded  by  the  north  side  of 
said  alleyway  as  above  stated,  so  as  to  move  the  boundaries  of  the 
lots  on  the  north  side  of  said  alleyway  in  block  fourteen,  thirty 
feet  north  of  their  present  southern  boundary,  the  whole  to  be  done 
under  the  direction  of  the  city  superintendent,  and  that  the  said 
new  street  thus  created  shall  be  designated  Foi'ks  Street. 

A7id  be  it  further  ordained.  That  after  such  reduction  in  the 
width  of  Carroll  street  is  legally  completed,  the  end  thereof 
fronting  on  the  north  branch  of  Chicago  river,  and  extending 
easterly  to  the  westerly  line  of  the  street  recently  opened  from 
North  Water  street  to  Carroll  street  shall  become  vested  in  the 
owners  of  the  lots  fronting  on  that  part  of  Carroll  street,  as  a 
compensation  for  the  reduction  in  width  of  said  street  as  before 
provided,  west  twenty -five  feet  in  width  to  each  lot. 
Passed  July  20th,  1857. 

Appkoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Jlayor 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismaistn,   City  Clerk. 


AMET^DING  MUNICIPAL  LAWS.  89 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Bupplemental  to  and  amendatory  of  Chapter  XLII.  of  the 
Municipal  Laws. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  hereafter  no  person  in  said  city,  shall  in  any  man- 
ner act  as  runner  for  any  public  house,  hotel,  company,  boarding 
house  or  person,  unless  such  runner  shall  present  to  the  person  or 
persons  solicited,  a  card  plainly  printed  in  a  language  understood 
by  such  person,  containing  the  name  of  the  person,  company  or 
place,  and  the  business  and  location  of  the  company,  person  or 
place  for  whom  such  runner  may  be  acting,  and  if  he  be  a  runner 
for  a  boarding  house,  hotel  or  other  place  of  entertainment,  such 
card  shall  contain  also  the  price  of  lodging,  of  board  by  the  day, 
by  the  week,  by  the  single  meal,  and  the  price  of  conveyance  of 
persons  and  baggage  to  and  from  such  boarding  house,  hotel  or 
other  place  of  entertainment,  conspicuously  printed  on  such  card 
or  bUl ;  and  if  any  such  runner  shall  violate  any  provision,  clause 
or  requirement  of  this  ordinance,  or  be  guilty  of  any  misrepresenta- 
tion  or  evil  practice  toward  any  emigrant  or  other  person,  or  shall 
neglect  to  deliver  to  the  person  or  persons  solicited  such  card 
immediately  after  addressing  such  person,  such  person  or  runner 
shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  exceeding 
one  hundred  dollars,  and  may  be  imprisoned  in  the  city  Bridewell 
not  exceeding  ninety  days,  or  both,  and  his  license  shall  be  revoked 
by  the  mayor. 

Sec.  2.  This  ordinance  shall  take  efiect  from  and  after  due 
piiblication. 

Passed  August  24^A,  1857. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,  City  Clerh. 


90  FIXING  GEADE  OF  STREETS. 

AN  ORDINANCE 

Fixing  the  Grade  of  Streets  in  the  West  Division. 

Sectiok  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago :  That  in  that  part  of  the  West  Division  of  the  city  of 
Chicago,  lying  between  the  North  and  South  branches  of  Cliicago 
river,  the  South  line  of  Polk  street,  the  West  line  of  Sangamon 
street  and  the  North  line  of  Chicago  avenue,  the  grade  of  the 
outer  edge  of  sidewalks  be  fixed  as  follows: 

[These  heights  are  referred  to  the  plane  of  low  water  in  the  year 
1847,  as  established  by  the  trustees  of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan 
canal,  the  said  plane  being  eight  feet  and  twenty -three  one-hun- 
dredths  (8.23)  of  a  foot,  below  the  water  table  of  Loomis'  store  on 
the  south-west  corner  of  Clark  and  South  Water  streets.] 

On  Canal  street  fourteen  (14)  feet. 

On  Clinton  street  fourteen  and  two-tenths  (14.2)  feet. 

On  Jeflerson  street  fourteen  and  four-tenths  (14.4)  feet. 

On  Desplaines  street  fourteen  and  six  tenths  (14.6)  feet. 

On  Union  street,  and  the  line  of  the  center  thereof  extended 
southerly  to  Harrison  street,  fourteen  and  eight-tenths  (14.8)  feet. 

On  Halsted  street  fifteen  (15)  feet. 

On  Green  street  fifteen  and  four -tenths  (15.4)  feet. 

On  Peoria  street  fifteen  and  four-tenths  (15.4)  feet. 

On  Sangamon  street  fifteen  and  six-tenths  (15.6)  feet. 

Sec.  2.  On  all  streets  running  east  and  west,  the  grade  shall 
be  a  straight  line  drawn  on  each  block  between  the  heights  fixed 
above  for  the  streets  running  north  and  south,  and  on  those  por- 
tions of  the  east  and  west  streets  lying  between  Canal  street  and 
the  North  and  South  branches  of  the  Chicago  river,  the  grade  shall 
descend  from  west  to  east  at  the  rate  of  one  inch  to  one  hundred 
feet.  The  heights  fixed  above  shall  be  the  grades  of  the  sidewalks 
at  the  outer  edge  thereof  The  sidewalks  shall  incline  upward 
from  the  outer  edge  toward  the  line  of  the  building  or  lot,  at  the 
rate  of  one  inch  in  three  feet. 

Sec.  3.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  to  confer 
any  power  on  any  party,  person  or  firm,  to  fill  streets  or  raise  the 
grade  of  sidewalks  in  front  of  their  own  or  any  other  premises, 
until  such  streets  have  bv  the  Common  Council  been  ordered  filled 


CHAT^GmG  NAME  OF  EOLKEK  STKEET.  91 

to  grade.  The  true  intent  and  meaning  of  this  ordinance,  being 
to  fix  and  determine  the  grade  for  streets  or  portions  of  streets 
to  which  it  refers,  but  not  to  order  them  or  any  of  them  filled 
lip  to  such  grade. 

Sec,  4.  Whenever  the  Common  Council  shall  order  any  street 
or  a  part  of  a  street  filled  to  grade,  the  expenses  and  damages 
shall  be  paid  by  special  assessment,  and  not  out  of  the  general 
fund  or  any  division  fund.  The  form  of  proceeding  shall  mainly 
be  the  same  as  in  other  local  improvements  paid  for  by  special 
assessments,  and  the  Council  shall  by  ballot  choose  three  reputable, 
competent  and  disinterested  freeholders  residing  in  the  city,  to 
assess  the  benefits  to  any  and  all  parties  from  such  filling  up,  and 
also  the  damages  arising  therefrom,  to  any  who  have  erected  biiild- 
ings  in  conformity  to  a  previously  established  grade  in  force  at  the 
time  of  their  erecting  such  buildings,  and  governing  them  in 
determining  the  grade  thereof. 

Sec.  5.    Such  portions  of  Article  2,  Chapter  XXYII.  of  the 
Municipal  Laws,  as  relate  to  territory  east  of  the  west  line  of 
Sangamon  street,  are  hereby  repealed. 
Passed  September  ^th,  1857. 
Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Jfayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,  Citi/  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  Change  the  name  of  Roller  to  Throop  Street. 

Section  1.  J3e  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago:  That  the  street  in  West  Chicago  running  North  and 
South  from  Madison  street  to  South  street,  lying  between  Rucker 
street,and  Loomis  street  and  midway  or  nearly  midway  between 
them,  and  called  and  known  as  Rolker  street,  shall  be  hereafter 
known  and  designated  as  Throop  street. 

Passed  September  ^th^  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  KEEis:^A^rN",  City  Clerk. 


92  LEVYING  TAXES  OF  1857. 

AN  ORDINANCE 

Levying  Taxes  for  the  year  1857. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  the  following  taxes  for  the  municipal  year  1857, 
for  the  several  purposes  hereinafter  specified,  to  wit : 

Three  and  a  half  mills  on  the  dollar  for  the  contingent  and  other 
expenses  of  the  city,  not  otherwise  specially  provided  for ; 

Two  mills  on  the  dollar  to  meet  the  expenses  of  purchasing 
grounds  for  school  houses,  building  and  maintaining  schools ; 

One  mill  on  the  dollar  to  meet  the  interest  accruing  on  the  gen- 
eral bonded  debt  of  the  city ; 

Five  mills  on  the  dollar  to  provide  for  the  erection  of  buildings, 
building  of  bridges,  docking,  dredging  the  harbor,  and  other  per- 
manent improvements  not  otherwise  provided  for ; 

One  mill  on  the  dollar  for  the  completion  of  a  city  hospital ; 

One  mill  on  the  dollar  to  pay  for  the  purchase  of  ground,  and 
complete  the  erection  of  city  armory  and  fire  depot,  and  one  mill 
on  the  dollar  to  meet  the  interest  accruing  on  the  bonds  issued  by 
the  sewerage  commissioners  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  for  the 
creation  of  a  sinking  fund  for  the  extinguishment  of  the  sewerage 
debt;  be,  and  the  same  are  respectively  levied  and  assessed  upon 
the  real  and  personal  estate  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  according  to 
the  assessed  value  thereof  for  the  year  aforesaid. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  ordained^  That  a  tax  of  one-half  mill  on 
the  dollar  be  assessed  iipon  the  real  and  personal  estate  of  the 
South  Division  of  said  city  of  Chicago,  according  to  the  assessed 
value  thereof  for  the  year  aforesaid,  to  defray  the  cost  of  improv- 
ing Dearborn  park,  in  the  said  division,  and  that  a  tax  of  two  mills 
on  the  dollar  be  assessed  upon  the  real  estate  in  the  several  lamp 
districts  of  said  division,  to  defray  three-fourths  of  the  expense 
of  erecting  and  lighting  street  lamps  in  said  districts.  , 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  ordained,  That  a  tax  of  two  mills  on  the 
dollar  be  assessed  upon  the  real  estate  in  the  several  lamp  districts 
of  the  West  Division  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  according  to  the 
assessed  value  thereof,  for  the  said  municipal  year,  to  defray  three- 
fom-ths  of  the  cost  of  erecting  and  lighting  street  lamps  in  said 
districts,  and  a  half  a  mill  on  the  dollar  to  pay  the  interest  on  bonds 


VACATING  AN  ALLEY.  93 

issued  for  the  purchase  of  Union  Park,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby 
severally  levied  and  assessed  upon  the  real  and  personal  estate  of 
said  West  Division  according  to  the  assessed  value  thereof,  for  the 
municipal  year  aforesaid. 

Sec,  4.  Be  it  further  ordained,  That  a  tax  of  two  mills  upon  the 
dollar  be  assessed  x;pon  the  real  estate  of  the  several  lamp  districts 
in  the  North  Division  of  the  city  of  Chicago  according  to  the 
assessed  value  thereof,  for  the  year  aforesaid,  to  defray  three-fourths 
of  the  expense  of  erecting  and  lighting  street  lamps  in  said  districts, 
and  one-half  mill  on  the  dollar  to  pay  the  expense  of  improving 
Washington  park. 

Sec.  5.  That  the  city  clerk  is  hereby  directed  to  issue  a  warrant 
in  due  form  for  the  collection  of  the  taxes  hereby  levied,  returnable 
in  sixty  days  from  the  date  thereof,  in  conformity  with  the  law  in 
such  case  made  and  provided. 

Passed  September  \Uh,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,  City  Cleric. 


AN  ORDINANCE 


Vacating  an  Alley  in  hlocJc  27,  S.  E.  Quarter  Section  17,  Toion 
39,  Eange  14  East. 

Be  it  ordained  by  tM  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That  the  alley  running  north  and  south  through  the  west  half  of 
block  twenty-seven  (27),  in  south-east  quarter  section  seventeen  (17), 
township  39,  range  14  east,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  vacated. 

Passed  October  5th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  llayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,  City  Clerk. 


94  EELATIVE    TO    CURBINa  STREETS. 

AN    ORDINANCE 

Fixing  the  Conviction  Fees  of  the  Stated  Attorney. 

Section  1.  JBe  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  all  conviction  fees  legally  accruing  to  the  state's 
attorney  of  this  judicial  circuit  for  prosecution  in  the  recorder's 
court,  from  and  after  July  1st,  1857,  where  said  attorney  cannot 
collect  the  same  from  the  defendants  in  the  respective  cases,  shall 
hereafter  be  paid  to  said  attorney  by  the  city  comptroller,  out  of 
any  money  in  the  city  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated:  Pro- 
vided,  No  money  shall  be  paid  as  aforesaid  except  upon  the  certifi- 
cate or  certificates  of  the  clerk  of  said  court,  at  the  conclusion  of 
the  terms  thereof,  setting  forth  in  detail  the  names  of  the  convicted 
parties,  the  crimes  of  which  they  are  severally  convicted,  the  sen- 
tences passed  upon  them,  and  the  fee  legally  due  the  prosecutor 
therefor;  A7id provided,  also,  Said  attorney  shall,  in  each  case  of 
receiving  money  hereunder,  receipt  for  the  same,  as  being  in  full 
of  all  demands,  both  in  law  and  equity  against  the  city. 

Passed  November  9th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Ilayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismakn,   City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Pelative  to  Curbing  Streets. 

Section  1.  JBe  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago :  That  where  any  streets  are  now,  or  shall  hereafter  be 
filled  to  the  established  grade,  or  filled  to  a  grade  requiring  curb- 
stone to  be  set  on  the  line  of  sidewalk,  that  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  superintendent  of  public  works  or  other  oflScer  in  charge  of  such 
filling,  to  deposit  sufficient  earth  or  other  material  on  the  sidewalk 
of  such  streets,  to  back  up  and  permanently  hold  the  curbstone. 


RELATIVE  TO  CITY  SUEVEYOE.  95 

Seo.  2.  All  ordinances  and  parts  of  ordinances  inconsistent  with 
this  ordinance  are  hereby  expressly  repealed. 

Sec.  3.  The  power  and  authority  is  hereby  vested  in  the  super- 
intendent of  public  works  and  street  commissioners  to  use  and 
obstruct  the  sidewalks  to  any  extent  necessary  to  carry  out  this 
ordinance. 

Passed  November  16th,  1857, 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,  Cit^  Clerk.  * 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Relating  to  tlie  City  Surveyor. 

Section  1.  Beit  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  surveyor  to  survey 
and  lay  out  all  streets,  alleys  and  dock  lines,  and  other  j)ublic 
improvements  ordered  by  the  Coimnon  Council,  and  to  make  plats 
of  the  same,  showing  the  lots  or  portions  of  lots  to  be  taken  for  such 
improvements ;  to  furnish  the  necessary  lines  and  levels  for  all 
paving,  bridges,  and  to  do  such  other  surveying  as  may  be  directed 
Tby  the  Common  Council,  or  by  any  authorized  city  officer  on  their 
behalf. 

Sec.  2.  For  all  service  rendered  to  the  city  as  above  described, 
the  city  surveyor  shall  receive  a  salary,  in  lieu  of  all  other  fees  and 
compensation  from  the  city  of  Chicago,  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars 
per  annum,  commencing  with  the  municipal  year  1858,  payable 
monthly,  and  he  shall  be  entitled  to  employ  such  assistants  and 
chainmen  as  shall  be  deemed  necessary  by  the  comptroller,  in  the 
performance  of  his  duties,  who  shall  be  paid  weekly  for  the  time 
they  are  actually  employed  by  the  city,  at  the  current  rates  per  day 
for  such  service,  their  bills  being  duly  certified  as  to  time  and 
value  of  service  by  the  city  surveyor,  and  sworn  to  when  required 
by  the  mayor  or  comptroller. 


96  ABOLISHING  WAED  DIVISIONS,  ETC. 

Sec.  3,  Chapter  eleven  of  the  municipal  laws  is  hereby  repealed. 
This  ordinance  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  the  commencement 
of  the  municipal  year,  A.  D.  1858. 

Passed  November  I6th,  1857. 

Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismanis",  Citi/  Cler/v. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning   Obstructions  in  Streets. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That  section  13  of  Article  I.  (entitled  obstructions  in  streets  and 
public  places),  of  Chapter  L.  of  the  municipal  laws,  be  so  amended 
as  to  allow  persons  to  deposit  ashes  in  the  center  of  any  street. 
And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  street  commissioners  of  the 
different  divisions  to  cause  such  ashes  to  be  removed  to  such  places 
as  the  superintendent  of  public  works  may  direct. 
Passed  November  16th,  1857. 
Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismann,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Abolishing  all  Divisions  of  Wards  for  Election  Purposes. 

JBe  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago: 
That  the  ordinance  dividing  the  seventh  ward  into  election  dis- 
tricts, and  also  an  order  dividing  the  sixth  ward  into  two  election 
districts,  both  passed  February  23d,  1857,  and  all  other  ordinances 
and  parts  of  ordinances,  and  all  other  orders  and  parts  of  orders, 
dividing  any  ward  of  the  city  of  Chicago  into  more  than  one 
election  district,  be,   and    the   same  are,   hereby    repealed    and 


FIXING    THE    GEADE    OF    STREETS.  9*7 

rescinded :  Provided^  That  so  much  of  the  proceedings  of  the  last 
meeting  as,  conditionally  or  otherwise,  ordered  a  poll  opened  at 
engine  house  number  thirteen,  in  the  sixth  ward,  and  made  Daniel 
Robston,  Reuben  Taylor  and  John  Wettstein,  inspectors,  and  also 
such  as  ordered  a  poll  opened  at  the  north-west  corner  of  Division 
and  Sedgwick  streets,  and  made  August  Walbaum,  William  Rost 
and  J.  Alston,  inspectors  in  seventh  ward,  be,  and  the  same  are, 
hereby  rescinded. 

This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  passage. 

Passed  February  22d,  1858. 

Appeoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Fixing  the  Grade  of  Streets  in  the  North  Division. 

Pe  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago: 
That  in  that  part  of  the  north  division  lying  south  of  the  north  line 
of  Chicago  avenue,  and  west  of  the  east  line  of  Rush  street,  and 
east  of  the  west  line  of  Market  street,  the  grade  of  the  curbstone 
of  sidewalks  be  fixed  as  follows : 

[These  heights  are  referred  to  the  plane  of  low  water  in  A.  D. 
184Y,  as  established  by  the  trustees  of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan 
canal,  the  said  plane  being  eight  feet  and  twenty-three  hundredths 
(8t¥o)  below  the  water  table  of  Loomis'  store,  on  the  south-west 
corner  of  Clark  and  South  Water  streets.] 

On  Kinzie  street  eleven  (11)  feet. 
On  Michigan  street  eleven  and  one-half  (Hi)  feet. 
On  Illinois  street,  eleven  and  sixty- two  hundredths  (HyVo)  f'set. 
On  Indiana  street,  eleven  and  seventy-four  hundredths  (HtVo) 
feet. 
On  Ohio  street,  eleven  and  eighty-six  hundredths  (HtVo)  feet. 
7 


98  FIXI]SrG  THE    GRADE    OF    STREETS. 

On  Ontario  street,  eleven  and  ninety-eiglit  hundredths  (llyVo) 
feet. 

On  Erie  street,  twelve  and  ten  hundredths  {I2j\%)  feet. 

On  Huron  street,  twelve  and  twenty -two  hundredths  (12yYo)  feet. 

On  Superior  street,  twelve  and  thirty -four  hundredths  (12tVo) 
feet. 

On  Chicago  avenue,  twelve  and  fifty  hundredths  {12 jW)  feet. 

The  grades  on  all  streets  running  north  and  south  shall  be  a 
straight  line  drawn  on  each  block  between  the  heights  fixed  above 
for  streets  running  east  and  west,  except  as  hereinafter  set  forth. 
The  grade  for  North  Water  street  shall  be  as  follows: 

On  the  south  side  of  said  North  Water  street,  at  intersection  of 
Wolcott  street,  nine  (9)  feet. 

At  the  intersection  of  Dearborn  street,  nine  (9)  feet. 
At       "  "  Clark  street,  eleven  (11)  feet. 

At      "  "  La  Salle  street,  nine  (9)  feet. 

At       "  "  Wells  street,  eleven  (11)  feet. 

At       "  "  Franklin  street,  nine  (9)  feet. 

At       "  "  Market  street,  nine  (9)  feet. 

On  the  north  side  of  said  North  Water  street,  at  the  intersection 
of  Wolcott  street,  nine  (9)  feet. 

At  the  intersection  of  Dearborn  street,  nine  (9)  feet. 

At       "  "  Clark  street,  eleven  (U)  feet. 

At       "  "  La  Salle  street,  ten  and  a  half  (10|)  feet. 

At       "  "  Wells  street,  eleven  (11)  feet. 

At       "  "  Franklin  street,  ten  and  a  half  (10-1)  feet. 

At       "  "  Market  street,  ten  and  a  half  (10^)  feet. 

Passed  February  22f?,  1858. 

Appkoved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismann,  City  Clerk. 


FOR   EAISING  SIDEWALKS.  99 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  repeal  an  Ordinance  concerning  the  Inspection  and  Classifi- 
cation of  Lumber,  Lath,  Shingles,  etc. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  'City  of  Chicago: 
That  Chapter  XXXVI.  of  the  municiiDal  laws  be,  and  the  same  is, 
hereby  repealed. 

Passed  February  22d,  1858. 
Approved, 

JOHN  WENTWORTH,  3Iayor.   ■ 
Attest, 

H.  Kkeismann,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

For  Raising  Bidexoalhs. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  where  any  street  or  portion  of  street  shall  be 
raised  to  the  grade  established  by  the  Common  Council,  and  curb- 
ed, or  area  walls  constructed  on  the  curb  line  of  such  street  or 
portion  of  street,  the  report,  order  or  resolution,  directing  such 
improvement,  shall  be  deemed  to  embrace  and  include  the  raising 
to  such  established  grade  of  so  much  of  the  sidewalk  as  lies  distant 
from  the  street  lines  of  such  street  or  portion  of  street,  one-half 
the  width  of  the  sidewalk  as  established  by  ordinance,  whether 
expressed  in  such  report,  order  or  resolution,  or  not. 

Sec.  2.  Whenever  any  street  or  portion  of  street  has  been 
raised  to  the  established  grade,  and  the  sidewalks  adjoining  remain 
over  twelve  inches  below  such  grade,  the  street  commssioner  of  the 
division,  or  the  supei'intendent  of  the  public  works  shall  cause  a 
verbal,  printed  or  written  notice  to  be  served  upon  the  owner  or 
occupant  of  the  premises  fronting  upon  such  sidewalk,  requiring 
such  owner  or  occupant  to  raise  to  the  said  established  grade,  so 
much  of  such  sidewalk  as  lies  distant  one-half  the  width  of  the 


100  CONCEENING    CERTAm  FIRE    COMPANIES. 

sidewalk,  as  establislied  by  the  ordinance,  from  such  premises 
within  ten  days  from  the  date  of  such  service.  Such  notice  shall 
be  served  upon  such  owner  or  occupant,  in  the  manner  prescribed 
in  Section  four,  Article  1,  Chapter  LIII.,  of  the  revised  ordinances, 
(p.  395).  If  any  person  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  raise  any  side- 
walk after  notice  as  aforesaid,  he  shall  be  subject  to  a  penalty  of 
twenty-five  dollars  for  each  offence. 

The  street  commissioner  shall,  in  all  cases  where  parties  refuse  or 
neglect  to  raise  sidewalks  in  pursuance  of  notice  as  aforesaid,  or 
cannot  be  found,  cause  the  same  to  be  raised  within  a  reasonable 
time  after  the  expiration  of  the  notice,  as  aforesaid,  and  rejDort  the 
expenses  to  the  Common  Council. 

The  report  shall  be  made  in  the  same  form,  and  an  assessment 
made  and  collected  in  the  manner  prescribed  in  Article  third.  Chap- 
ter LIII.,  of  the  revised  ordinances. 

Passed  March  22^,  1858. 

Appkoyed, 

JOHN"  C.  HAINES,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H,  Kreismakn,    City  Cleric. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  Certain  Fire   Companies. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  all  ordinances  and  parts  of  ordinances,  all  orders 
and  parts  of  orders,  creating  or  in  any  way  authorizing  the  exist- 
ance  of  engine  companies  Red  Jacket,  No.  4,  Washington,  No.  10, 
Red  Rover,  No.  14  ;  also,  hook  and  ladder  company  Rescue,  No. 
2  ;  also,  hose  companies  Illinois,  No.  3,  and  Lady  Washington, 
No.  5,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed  and  rescinded. 

Passed  March  22f?,  1858, 

Approved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreisaiann,  City  Clerk. 


CHANGING   NAME    OF    SAND    STEEET.  101 

AN  ORDINANCE 

To   Open  an  Alley  in  Block  45,    Original  Town. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago: 
That  the  south  nine  and  one-half  (9^)  feet  of  the  north  thirty- 
five  (35)  feet  of  lot  number  three  (3)  of  block  number  forty- 
five  of  the  original  tovm  of  Chicago,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby 
declared  a  public  highway  in  accordance  with  the  wish  of  the 
abutters  as  expressed  in  their  petition,  dated  november  16th, 
1857,  on  the  files  of  the  city  clerk. 

Passed  March  22f?,  1858. 

Approved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kbeismann,   City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Changing  the  name  of  Sand  Street  to  that  of  St.   Clair  Street. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That  the  street  in  the  North  Division  of  said  city,  lying  east  of, 
and  parallel  with.  Pine  street,  extending  from  North  Water  street 
to  Chicago  Avenue,  and  heretofore  known  and  designated  as  Sand 
street,  be,  and  the  same  shall,  hereafter,  be  known  and  designated 
as  St.  Clair  street. 

Passed  March  2Qth,  1858. 

Approved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  3fayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreis>;ann,  City  Clerk. 


102  SALARIES    OF   OFFICERS. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

To  Repeal  part  of  Section  XYI.  of  an  Ordinance  concerning 
Vehicles. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  the  owners  or  drivers  of  hackney  coaches  only, 
be  allowed  to  stand  on  the  south  side  of  South  Water  street, 
between  Michigan  and  Central  Avenues. 

Sec.  2.  That  so  much  of  the  ordinance  concerning  vehicles  as 
conflict  with  this  provision  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed. 

Passed  March  22c?,  1858. 

Approved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  Matjor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismann,  City  Clerh 


AN  ORDINANCE 

JFixing  the  Salaries  of  the  several  Officers  therein  named. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  annual  salaries  shall  be  paid  to  the  several 
officers  hereinafter  in  this  section  named,  in  equal  monthly  pay- 
ments ;  and,  in  accordance  with  section  seventy-one  of  the 
amendments  to  the  city  charter,  approved  February  16,  1857,  all 
fees,  perquisites  and  emoluments  whatever,  received  or  paid,  or 
j)ayable  to  any  of  said  ofiicers,  shall  belong  to  and  be  paid  by 
such  person  or  jDcrsons,  into  the  city  treasury,  the  same  as  all  other 
revenues  belonging  thereto  :  Provided,  That  any  provision  of  this 
ordinance  requiring  any  ofl5cer  to  pay  all  fees  and  emoluments  into 


SALAlJIES    OF    OFFICEES.  103 

the  city  treasury,  shall  not  be  construed  to  in  any  way  aj^ply  to  or 
affect  the  salary  paid  by  the  state  to  the  recorder,  or  the  fees  paid 
to  him  in  civil  cases. 


Comptroller |4,000 

City  Clerk 1,500 

Treasurer 2,000 

City  Superintendent 2,000 

Superintendent  of  Special  Assessments 2,000 

Kecorder 3,000 

Marshal 2,000 

Captain  of  Police 2,000 

"  "     Clerk  $15  per  week 

1st  Lieut.         "  15         " 

2d  Lieut.  "  13         " 

Policemen 12         " 

City  Physician $    500 

Health  Officer 1,200 

Street  Commissioners,  each 1,200 

Harbor  Master 1,500 

Collector 2,500 

Market  Clerks,  each 550 

Bridewell  Keeper 400 

Police  Justices,  each 2,000 

School  Agent 500 

Book  keeper  in  Comptroller's  office 1,500 

Asst.  Book  keeper        "  "     1,200 

Clerk  "  "     1,000 

Asst.  Clerk  in  City  Clerk's  office . . .  T 1,200 


Sec.   2.    That  the   several  bridge  tenders  hereinafter  in  this 
section  named  shall  be  allowed  the  following  sums  monthly,  viz. : 

On   Clark  street    bridge $150 

On  Lake  "  "      140 

On  Kinzie       "  "      15 

On  Madison    "  "      130 

On  Wells         "  "      150 

On  Randolph "  "      130 

OuY.Buren  "  " 110 

On  Twelfth     "  "      75 

On  Polk          "  "      85 

On  Old  "  "      15 

On  Chicago  Av.  "      60 

On    Rush    street       "      150 

On  Erie  "  "     when  finished 75 

On  Indiana     "  "  "  "       75 


104  CONCEENING    THE    POLICE    COUET. 

Sec.  3.   That  all  ordinances,  or  parts  of  ordinances,  in  any  way 
conflicting  with  the  above,  be,  and  the  same  are,  hereby  rescinded. 
Passed  April  5th,  1858. 

Appkoved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  Ifayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismann,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

In  accordance  with  the  requirements  of  Amended  Charter,  Section 
XXIIL,  directing  the    City  Treasurer  lohere  to  Deposit  his 


JBe  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That  the  city  treasurer  be,  and  is  hereby  directed,  to  deposit 
moneys  received  by  him  at  the  banking  house  of  Messrs.  George 
Smith  &  Co. 

Passed  April  5th,  1858. 

Approved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismann,  Citu  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  the  Police    Court,  and  Designating  two  Justices  to 
hold  the  same. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago :  That  William  H.  Stickney  and  Andrew  Aiken, 
justices  of  the  peace  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  be,  and  they  are 
hereby  designated  to  have  jurisdiction  of  all  actions  for  the 
recovery  of  any  and  all  fines  and  penalties,  under  the  laws  or 
ordinances  and  police  regulations  of  the  city. 

Sec.  2.  Said  justices  of  the  peace  shall  constitute  and  be  styled 
the  Police  Court  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  shall  continue,  under 
such  designation,   to  take  such  jurisdiction,  as  justices  of  the 


CONCERNING   THE   POLICE    COURT.  105 

peace,  for  one  year,  or  until  their  successors  be  aj^pointed,  or  until 
they  shall  be  removed  by  the  Common  Council.  Said  justices 
shall  hold  "  Police  Court"  daily  (Sundays  excepted)  from  8  to  12 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  from  2  to  6  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
in  the  room  in  the  Armory  Building  now  used  for  that  purpose,  or 
in  such  place  as  the  Common  Council  may  designate  and  provide, 
and  shall,  both  of  them,  give  daily  attendance  thereon,  unless 
sickness  or  unavoidable  casualty  prevent.  And  especially  shall 
each  of  them  give  such  attendance  whenever  any  case  or  cause  is 
to  come  up,  or  be  tried  on  account  of,  or  in  connection  with  which 
he  may  or  shall  have  taken  special  bail. 

Sec.  3.  In  compensation  for  their  services  in  said  court  said 
justices  shall  receive  each  a  salary  of  two  thousand  dollars  per 
annum,  payable  quarterly,  said  salary  being  in  lieu  of  all  other 
compensation  or  fees  whatever,  accruing  from  the  business  to  be 
disposed  of  for  the  city  in  said  court;  and  the  said  justices,  before 
they  shall  enter  upon  their  duties  in  said  court,  shall  execute  and 
file  in  the  office  of  the  City  Comptroller  an  express  relinquishment, 
in  favor  of  the  city,  of  all  fees,  costs  and  emoluments  arising  from 
the  business  of  said  court. 

Sec.  4.  Sections  one  (1),  two  (2)  and  three  (3)  of  an  ordinance 
entitled  "An  Ordinance  Concerning  the  Police  Court,"  passed 
March  16,  1857,  are  hereby  i*epealed,  but  suits  commenced  and 
proceedings  heretofore  instituted,  and  such  as  may  be  commenced 
and  instituted  before  the  justices  whose  commissions  as  justices 
of  the  peace  have  not  yet  expired,  heretofore  designated,  at  any 
time  before  the  justices  of  the  peace  designated  under  this  act 
shall  be  qualified,  and  shall  have  entered  upon  the  duties  of  their 
office,  may  be  prosecuted  in  the  same  manner,  and  with  the  same 
efiect,  as  if  this  ordinance  had  not  been  passed.  This  ordinance 
shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 

Passed  April  26th,  1858. 

Approved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  Ma^or. 
Attest, 

H.  KpvEismann,  City  Clerk. 


106  CONCEENIlSrG   MISDEMEANOES. 

AN  ORDINANCE 

Opening  an  Alley  in  JBlocJc  XXVL,  School  Section. 

Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That  the  curved  alley  in  block  number  twenty-six  of  the  school 
section  addition  to  the  city  of  Chicago,  as  represented  by  the 
coloring  in  pink  in  the  plat  by  the  city  surveyor,  herewith  sub- 
mitted and  marked  "B,"  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  declared  a 
public  highway,  to  be  recorded  as  such  in  the  book  provided  for 
the  recording  of  streets  and  alleys  opened  by  the  Common  Council. 
Passed  April  26th,  1858. 

Approved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  Maijor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kreismann,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Amendatory  of  an  Ordinance  concerning  Offences  in  the  nature  of 
ITisdemeanors,  passed  September  15th,  1856. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  hy  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  All  able  bodied  persons  who,  not  having  visible 
means  to  maintain  themselves,  are  idly  without  employment,  or 
are  found  loitering  or  rambling  about,  or  wandering  abroad  and 
lodging  in  groceries,  drinking  saloons,  tippling  houses,  beer  houses, 
out  houses,  bawdy  houses,  houses  of  ill  fame,  houses  of  bad  repute, 
vessels,  sheds  or  barns,  or  in  the  open  air,  or  shall  be  found  tres- 
passing in  the  night  time  upon  the  private  premises  of  others,  and 
not  giving  a  good  account  of  themselves ;  or  wandering  abroad 
and  begging ;  or  going  about  from  door  to  door  begging ;  or  plac- 
ing themselves  in  the  street,  or  other  thoroughfares,  or  in  public 
places,  to  beg  or  receive  alms ;  all  keepers  or  exhibitors  of  any 
gaming  table  or  device ;  and  all  persons  who,  for  the  purpose  of 
gaming,  or  for  the  purpose  of  watch  stuffing,  travel  about,  or  go 
from  place  to  place  ;  and  all  persons  upon  whom  shall  be  found 
any  instrument  or  thing  used  for  the  commission  of  burglary, 
larceny,  or  for  picking  locks  or  pockets ;  or  any  galvanized  watches 


AMENDATOEY    OF   HAEBOR   ORDHSTANCE.  107 

or  stuffed  watches,  or  anything  used  for  obtainmg  money  under 
false  pretences,  and  who  cannot  give  a  good  account  of  their 
possession  of  the  same,  shall  be  deemed  vagrants,  and  upon  convic- 
tion shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  two  dollars  nor  exceeding 
one  hundred  dollars,  or  imprisoned  in  the  city  bridewell  for  a 
term  not  exceeding  three  months,  or  both. 

Sec.  2.  That  section  eight  of  article  one  of  said  ordinance  be, 
and  the  same  is  hereby  amended,  by  striking  out  the  words 
"twenty-five"  in  the  last  line  of  said  section,  and  inserting  the 
words  "one  hundred." 

Sec.  3.  That  section  one  of  article  three  of  said  ordinance  be, 
and  the  same  is  hereby  amended,  by  striking  out  the  words 
"twenty-five"  in  the  eighth  line  of  said  section  and  inserting  the 
words  "one  hundred"  tlierein. 

Sec.  4.  All  parts  of  ordinances  in  conflict  with  this  ordinance 
be,  and  the  same  are  hereby  rej)ealed. 

Passed  April  26,  1858. 

Approved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  3Iayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Keeismajstn,  City  Clerk. 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Amendatory  of  the  Harbor  Ordinance. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago  : 
That  Paile  or  Division  "Fifth"  of  "Sec.  11"  of  the  Ordinance 
entitled  "An  Ordinance  concerning  the  Harbor,"  passed  May  20, 
1856  [see  "Municipal  Laws,"  pp.  252  to  259],  be  amended  by 
striking  out  of  the  same  the  words  "  dropped  under  the  vessels 
fore-foot,"  and  inserting  in  lieu  of  them,  in  the  same  situation  or 
connection  in  the  sentence,  the  words  "  or  suspended  from  the 
Hawse-pipe  by  the  ring  or  shackle,  and  below  the  surface  of  the 
water." 

Passed  Ai^ril  26,  1858. 

Approved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  Ilayor. 
Attest, 

H.  KJREisjiiANN,  City  Clerk. 


A.]Sr    A.OT 

To  Define^  Confirm  and  Legalize  the  Acts  of  a  Fish  Inspector  of 
the  City  of  Chicago. 

Sectiok  1.  JBe  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois^ 
represented  in  the  General  Assembly  :  That  from  and  after  the 
passage  of  this  law,  no  fresh  water  fish  shall  be  sold  or  received 
for  sale,  or  on  consignment,  in  or  at  the  city  of  Chicago,  without 
being  first  duly  inspected  by  the  legal  inspector  of  and  for  the 
city  of  Chicago,  appointed  by  virtue  of  this  act,  as  hereinafter 
mentioned. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  or  persons  bringing 
or  causing  to  be  brought  to  the  city  of  Chicago,  for  the  purpose 
of  sale,  any  fi-esh  water  fish,  to  have  the  same  duly  inspected  by 
the  legal  inspector  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  before  such  fish  shall 
be  sold  or  in  any  way  disposed  of;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
every  person  or  persons  receiving  such  fish,  by  consignment,  for 
and  on  account  of  any  other  party,  to  have  such  fish  duly 
inspected  by  the  fish  inspector  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  before 
delivering  them  to  the  owner  or  his  agent  or  other  person ;  and 
such  consignee  shaU  pay  the  fees  of  inspection,  and  shall  have  a 
lien  upon  such  fish  in  his  possession  for  the  fees  so  advanced  by 
him  ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  having  such  fish  in 
his  possession,  for  the  purpose  of  selling  or  of  dealing  in  the  same, 
and  of  every  consignee  having  fish  on  consignment,  before  the 
said  fish  shall  be  sold  or  in  anywise  disposed  of,  to  give  notice  to 
the  mspector,  and  have  such  fish  duly  inspected  and  branded; 
and  for  this  purpose,  such  person  shall  arrange  the  packages  in  a 
convenient  manner,  and  have  them  in  some  suitable  place. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  fish  inspector,  on  due 
application  of  any  person  or  persons  having  such  fish  in  possession, 
to  repaii-  to  the  place  of  deposit  of  such  fish,  if  the  same  shall  be 
within  the  city  limits  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  shall  inspect  the 
same  with  as  little  delay  as  possible. 


110  RELATING    TO   FISH   IT^SPECTOE. 

Sec.  4.  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  fish  inspector  to 
procure  sealed  weights,  and  carefully  weigh  all  fish  ofi"ered  for 
inspection ;  and  to  entitle  said  inspector  to  grant  a  certificate  of 
due  inspection,  or  to  brancl  the  packages  as  duly  inspected,  he 
shall  first  find  that  the  contents  and  weights  of  the  several 
packages  are  as  follows,  viz. :  Each  barrel  shall  contain  200  lbs  ; 
each  half  barrel  shall  contain  100  lbs;  each  quarter  barrel  shall 
contain  50  lbs ;  and  each  eighth  barrel  shall  contain  25  lbs.  Such 
inspector  shall,  also,  on  branding  any  package  of  fish  as  inspected, 
plainly  and  distinctly  mark  on  the  head  of  each  package,  in  some 
indellible  manner,  the  kind,  quantity  and  quality  of  fish  contained 
in  each  package,  respectively,  together  with  his  name  and  the 
year  and  month  in  which  the  same  shall  have  been  inspected. 

Sec.  5.  The  inspectqr  shall  be  liable,  by  suit,  in  any  court 
having  jurisdiction  of  the  cause,  for  all  damages  that  may  accrue 
to  any  person  or  persons,  or  company,  by  reason  of  misfeasance 
or  malfeasance  in  the  inspection  of  any  package  of  fish. 

Sec.  6.  The  inspector  sliall  be  entitled  to  the  following  fees  for 
the  performance  of  his  duties,  viz. :  For  unheading,  heading, 
weighing,  re-packing,  brining,  and  inspecting  and  branding  each 
barrel,  25  cents;  each  half  barrel,  15  cents;  each  quarter  barrel, 
10  cents  ;  each  extra  hoop,  5  cents ;  each  extra  head,  25  cents. 

Sec.  7.  The  inspector  shall  not  put  his  brand  upon  any  package 
of  fish,  as  duly  inspected,  unless  the  same  be  well  hooped  and 
headed,  and  in  all  respects  sufficient  to  retain  brine,  and  also  be 
in  good  shipping  condition. 

Sec.  8.  No  person  holding  the  office  of  fish  inspector  for  said 
city  of  Chicago,  nor  shall  his  employes  or  assistants,  or  either  of 
them,  buy  or  sell,  or  deal  in,  or  in  anywise  be  interested,  in  any 
fish  to  be  sold  or  consigned  to  the  city  of  Chicago. 

Sec.  9.  Every  fish  inspector,  appointed  by  virtue  hereof,  shall 
keep  a  record  of  the  number  of  packages  and  sizes,  and  of  the 
kinds  and  qualities  of  fish,  and  for  whom  inspected  by  hira,  each 
year ;  and  shall  make  a  report  of  the  same  to  the  Common  Council, 
on  the  first  day  of  Jamiary  in  each  year. 

Sec.  10.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  fish  inspector  to  keep  an 
office  at  a  convenient  place,  on  or  near  the  Chicago  river,  which 


EELATING   TO    FISH   Il!q^SPECTOE.  Ill 

shall  be  kept  open  during  business  hours,  and  in  which  the  inspec- 
tor shall  at  all  times  have  some  person,  during  his  absence,  to 
receive  orders. 

Sec.  11.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  inspector  of  fish  to  see  to  the 
enforcement  of  this  law,  and  that  all  violations  of  the  same  are 
prosecuted. 

Sec.  12.  Any  fish  inspector  violating,  refusing  or  failing  to 
comply  with  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  law,  so  far  as  they  are 
made  incumbent  upon  him,  shall,  for  every  offence,  be  liable  to  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars ; 
which  said  fine  may  be  collected  in  the  same  way  as  is  provided 
by  the  Revised  Statutes  for  the  collection  of  fines  in  cases  of 
misdemeanors. 

Sec.  13.  Every  inspector  of  fish,  who  shall  be  appointed  in 
pursuance  hereof,  shall,  before  entering  upon  the  discharge  of  the 
duties  of  his  said  office,  give  bond,  with  two  good  and  sufficient 
sureties,  in  the  penal  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars,  and  running  to 
the  people  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  and  conditioned  that  he  will  well 
and  faithfully  perform  the  duties  of  said  office  and  satisfy  all  dam- 
ages that  may  legally  be  demanded  of  him  by  virtue  of  the  provisions 
hereof 

Sec.  14.  The  inspector  appointed  by  virtue  hereof  shall  have 
the  right  to  ai:)point,  and  the  same  to  remove  at  pleasure,  one  or 
more  assistants,  who  shall  have  the  same  right  to  brand  all  pack- 
ages inspected  by  either  of  them  in  the  name  of  the  said  inspector ; 
but  each  assistant  shall  have  some  distinctive  mark,  with  which 
he  shall  designate  each  package  inspected  by  himself,  so  as  to 
indicate  by  whom  the  inspection  was  actually  made ;  and  the 
said  inspector  shall  have  the  right  to  take  bond,  with  sufficient 
penalty  and  security,  running  to  himself,  from  each  of  the 
assistants  appointed  by  himself,  and  to  the  same  tenor,  as  the 
bond  herein  required  to  be  executed  by  said  inspector ;  and  the 
said  inspector  shall  be  liable  for  the  acts  of  his  said  assistants,  and 
may  sue  on  the  bonds  of  any  of  them,  to  recover  any  damages 
that  he  may  have  suff'ered,  by  i-eason  of  their  misfeasance  or 
•malfeasance. 

Sec.  15.    The  said  inspector  shall  have  the  right  to  sue,  in  any 


112  EELATmG    TO    FISH   INSPECTOE. 

court  having  jurisdiction  of  the  action,  for  his  fees  for  services 
performed,  either  by  himself  or  his  assistants  by  virtue  hereof. 

Sec.  16.  The  inspectors,  to  be  appointed  as  herein  provided, 
shall  be  appointed  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago 
as  soon  as  convenient  after  the  annual  election  of  said  body  ;  and 
he  shall  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  two  years,  and  until  his 
successor  be  legally  qualified. 

Sec.  17.  The  present  inspector  of  fish,  heretofore  appointed  by 
the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  Chicago,  and  now  in  office? 
shall  be  and  continue  such  inspector  until  his  successor  shall  be 
appointed  and  qualified,  at  the  time  herein  mentioned. 

'    Sec.  18.    This   act    shall    become    a    law  immediately   on    its 
passage. 

Approved  February  18th,  1857. 


CONCERNING   LICENSES.  113 


AN  ORDINANCE 

Concerning  Licenses. 

Section  1.  Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City 
of  Chicago  :  That  all  licenses  authorized  and  required  by  any 
Ordinance  of  the  City  of  Chicago,  shall  be  issued  to  such  person 
or  persons  as  shall  comply  in  all  respects  with  the  different  pro- 
visions of  the  ordinances  of  the  city,  and  as  the  Mayor,  in  his 
discretion,  shall  deem  suitable  and  proper  persons  to  exercise  the 
occupation  for  which  he,  she,  or  they  apply  to  be  licensed,  and  to 
no  others. 

Sec.  2.  That  aU  ordinances  and  parts  of  ordinances  in  conflict 
with  this  ordinance,  be,  and  the  same  are,  hereby  repealed. 

Passed  April  26th,  1858. 

Approved, 

JOHN  C.  HAINES,  Mayor. 
Attest, 

H.  Kebismajstn,  City  Clerk. 


INDEX. 


ALLEYS— 

In  Block  27,  Sec.  1*7,  Vacated. . .  93 

In  Block  45,  Old  Town,  opened. .  101 

In  Block  26,  S.  S.  Add.,  opened. .  106 

AMENDMENTS    TO    THE    CITY 
CHARTER 3-26 

ANCHORS.     See  Harbor. 

ANNUAL  REPORT— 

Of  Comptroller,  (Sec.  15) 8 

APPEALS— 

From  Police  Court,  (Sec.  70) 22 

ALMS— 

Soliciting  Prohibited 106,  107 

ASSESSMENT  ROLLS— 

Annual  to  be  returned  to  Council, 

(Sec.  37) 14 

Revision  and  Confirmation,  (Sec. 

37) 14 

ASSESSMENTS— 

Orders  and  Warrants,  how  made, 

(Sec.  38) 14 

When  delivered,  (Sec.  38) 14 

Notice  by  Collector,  (Sec.  39) ... .     14 
Proceedings  for  Judgment,  (Sees. 

40-43) 14,   15 

Order  to  Sell,  (Sec.  44) 16 

Notice  of  Sale,  (Sec.  46) 16 

Sale,  how  conducted,  (Sec.  47).. .     16 
Issuing  Certificates  of  Sale,  (Sec. 

48) 17 

Force  of  Tax  Deeds,  (Sec.  49). . .     17 
When  Tax   Sale   to  take  place, 

(Sec.  51) 17 

Special  Warrants  to  issue  forth- 
with, (Sec.  52) 18-19 

Costs,  (Sec.  52) 18-19 

Interest  on  Special  Warrants,  (Sec. 
62) 18-19 

ASHES— 
Deposite  in  Streets 96 


Pagb. 
ATTORNEY— 
Prosecuting,  how  appointed,  (Sec. 

67) 21,  60 

Prosecuting,  Salary  of. 60 

City,  Salary  of 71 

State's,  Conviction  Fees 94 

Additional,  when  employed,  (Sec. 

11) 6 

awnings- 
How  Constructed 69,  70 

BADGES— 

Of  Hackmen  and  Expressmen. . .     68 
Fire  Department,  distribution  of..     61 

BALL  ALLEYS— 

Ordinance  Concerning 43 

BATHING— 

In  Lake  Prohibited 66 

House 77,  78 

BEGGARS— 

Punishment  of. 106,  107 

BILLIARD  TABLES— 

Ordinance  Concerning 43 

Penalties,  how  paid 72 

Commutation  of  Penalties 86 

BOUNDARIES— 

Of  Vth  and  Xth  Wards  (Sec.  88)    26 

BRIDGE  TENDERS— 

Salaries  of 103 

BIRDS— 

Killing  of,  Prohibited 66 

CEMETERIES— 
Land  may  be  Purchased  for,  (Sec. 

81) 24 

Power  of  Council  (Sees.  82,  84),  24,  25 

Cemetery  Fund,  (Sec.  83) 25 

Violation  of  Ordinances  (Sec.  84),     25 

CITY  ATTORNEY.    See  Attorney. 


116 


INDEX. 


Page. 
CITY  CHARTER— 

Amendments  to 3-26 

CITY  clerk- 
To  Certify  Ordinances  to  Mayor, 

(Sec.  3j 3 

To  Furnish  List  of  Improvements 

to  Comptroller,  (Sec.  1*7) 9 

Salary 103 

CITY  SUPERINTENDENT.      See 
Superintendent. 

CITY  COLLECTOR— 

Election  and  Duties 11-18 

Special  Collectors  Abolished  (Sec. 

27) 11 

When  to  Report 11-12 

In  case  of  Removal  how  Vacancy 

filled,  (Sec.  29) 11 

Punishment    for    Embezzlement, 

(Sec.  35) 12 

To  make  Report,  (Sec.  30) 12 

In  Settlement  with  Comptroller, 

Appeal  Allowed,  (Sec.  32) 12 

Assistant  Collectors,  (Sec.  33). . .  12 

Accounts  to  be  Verified  (Sec.  36),  13 

To  Collect  Money  for  Licenses. . .  72 

Collectors  of  Street  Taxes ......  64 

COMMON  COUNCIL— 
Ordinances,  etc.,  to  be  referred  to 

Committees,  (Sec.  2) 3 

Reports  of  Committees,  (Sec.  2). .       3 
Publication  of  Reports,  Sec.  2). .       3 
Members  of,  and  other  City  Offi- 
cers,  not   to  be   interested    in 

Contracts,  (Sec.  5) 4 

Appropriations  not  to  exceed  An- 
nual Income,  (Sec.  16).. 8,  9 

Aldermen  Vth  and  Xth  "Wards, 
(Sees.  89,  90) 26 

COMMISSIONERS  OF  PARKS— 
How  Appointed 27 

COMPTROLLER— 

Appointment  and  term  of  Office, 

(Sec.  9) 5 

Duties 5-9 

Keep  Books,  etc.  (Sec.  10) 5 

Have  Charge  of  everything  (Sec. 

11) ■ 6 

Adjust   Accounts  of    Collectors, 

(Sec.  12) 6 

Warrants,  how  drawn,  (Sec.  13).       6 
Submit  Claims  to  Mayor  and  Fi- 
nance Committee,  (Sec.  13). . .       7 
Supervision  of  Collection  of  Taxes, 
(Sec.  14) 1 


Pagb. 
COMPTROLLER—  Continued. 
To  make  Annual    Statement  of 

Finances,  (Sec.  )15 8 

Make  Annual  Estimate  (Sec.  16),  8 
Keep   a    List  of   Improvements, 

(Sec.l7) 9 

Prescribe  Form  of  Book  of  Trea- 
surer, (Sec.  18) 9 

Annual  Meet'g  with  Finance  Com- 
mittee, (Sec.  31) 12 

Appeal  from  decision  of,  (Sec.  32)  12 

Clerks  and  Assistants,  (Sec.  33)...  12 

Other  Duties,  (Sec.  34) 12 

Countersign  Warrants,  (Sec.  38)..  14 
Hath  Charge  Certificates  of  Sales 

for  Taxes,  (Sec.  48) 17 

To  fill  Vacancy  In  Office  of  Col- 
lector, (Sec.  50) 17 

To  Sell  Cemetery  Lots  (Sec.  83),  24 

Ordinance  Concerning 72 

CONTRACTS— 

Not  to  be  made  without  appropria- 
tion, (Sec.  5) 4 

Making  of,  to  be  committed  to  De- 
partments, (Sec.  5) 4 

To  be  countersigned  by  Comptrol- 
ler, (Sec.  17) 9 

COURT.     See  Police  Court. 

DEEDS  FOR  TAXES.     See  Assess- 
ments. 

DISTILLERIES.     See  Nuisances. 

DISORDERLY  CONDUCT— 

Punishment 107 

DOCK  LINES— 

On  South  Branch 54 

DRUNKENNESS— 

Punishment 106 

EDUCATION— 

Board  of,  (Sec.  77) 23 

ELECTIONS— 

Precincts 3,  96 

FEES— 

Payment  of,  Abolished  (Sec.  71),     22 

FIRE  DEPARTMENT— 

Badges  of  Firemen 61 

General  Review 71 

Repairs  of  Engines 82 

Certain  Companies  Disbanded. . .  100 


INDEX. 


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Page. 

FIRE  limits- 
Id  South  Division 74 

Wooden  Buildings  may  be  raised,  75 

In  West  Division  Repealed 83 

FIRE  WOOD— 

Ordinance  Concerning "78 

FISH  INSPECTOR— 

Act  Concerning 109-112 

GAMBLING— 

Ordinance  Concerning. .  .15,  106,  lOY 

GRADES— 

Ordinance  Establishing,  South  Di- 
vision  67-69 

Ordinance  Establishing,  West  Di- 
vision      90 

Ordinance  Establishing,  North  Di- 
vision      97 

HACKMEN— 

Stands  in  front  of  Hotels 60 

To  wear  Badges 58 

At  Central  Depot 102 

HARBOR— 

Anchors,  how  carried 107 

INSPECTORS— 

Of  Schools,  (Sees.  77,  78) 23 

Of  Elections,  (Sec.  1) 3 

Of  Wood 78-80 

Of  Fish 109-112 

INMATES— 

Of  Bawdy  Houses 106-107 

JUSTICES— 

Of  Police  Court,  how  appointed, 

(Sec.  53) 18 

Salary,  (Sees.  18,  19) 104-105 

LAKE— 
Bathing  in.  Prohibited .  * . . .  t . . .     66 

LATH,  LUMBER,  ETC.— 

Ordinance  Repealed 99 

LICENCES— 

To  Peddlers  of  Books 42 

Power  to  Revoke. .  .72,  75,  81,  87,  89 
Ordinance  Concerning 113 

LOAN— 

Power  to  make  for  Park  (Sec.  12),     30 

MARSHAL— 

Duty  of,  concerning  Nuisances. . .     40 


Page. 
MARSHAL— Continued. 

Ordinance  Repealed 7S 

Salary 77 

MAYOR— 

To  Appoint  Officers,  (Sees.  6,  9). .  4-5 

Salary,  (Sec.  72) 22 

To  Approve  Ordinances  (Sec.  34),  4 
To  Sell  Park  Stock,  (Sec.  11). .  30 
To  Revoke  Licenses,  72,  75,  81,  87,  89 

MISDEMEANORS— 

Concerning  Offenses  in  the  nature 
of 106,  107 

MILK— 

Ordinance  Concerning  48 

NOTICE— 

Of  Payment  of  Taxes,  (Sec.  39). .  14 
Of  Tax  Sale,  (Sees.  45,  46) 16 

NUISANCES— 

Ordinance  Concerning 39 

Certain  Places,  when 40 

Duty  and  Power  of  Officers  Con- 
cerning      40 

NEWSPAPER— 

Corporation,  compensation  of.  .55,  56 

OBSCENE  PUBLICATIONS— 
Sexton's  Ordinance 52 

OFFICERS- 
Notelected,  how  appointed  (Sec.  6)     4 
Removal  for  neglect  to  pay  over 

money,  (Sec.  14) 7 

To  Report  to  Comptroller,  (Sees. 

14-16) 7-8 

Reports  to  be  under  oath  (Sec.  36)  13 
To  deliver  Stolen  Property  to  Clerk 

Police  Court,  (Sees.  62,  66). . .     21 

ORDINANCES— 
To    be   referred    to    Committee, 

(Sec.  2) 3 

Mayor  to  Approve,  (Sec.  2) 3 

Passage  after  Veto,  (Sec.  3) 4 

To  become  Law  if  not  returned  in 

five  days,  (Sec.  3) 4 

PARKS— 

Appointment  of  Commissioners  to 

lay  out  Park,  South  Division,  27-30 

Location  of,  South  Div.  (Sees.  3, 4)  27 

Report  of  Commis'rs  (Sees.  5-8),  28 

How  paid  for,  (Sees.  9-10) 29 

Park  Stock,  (Sec.  10) 29 

Damages,  when  paid,  (Sec.  13).. .  29 


118 


INDEX 


Page. 
PEDDLERS— 

Of  Books  and  Newspapers 42 

POLICEMEN— 

Authorized  to  serve  Process. .  .63,  64 

POLICE  COURT— 

Act  Creating 18-22 

Justices,  how  appointed,  (Sec.  54) 

18,  59,  60,  104,  105 
Salary  of  Justices  (Sec.  66)18, 104,  105 

Clerk,  how  elected,  (Sec.  56) 19 

Vacancy  in  Clerkship,  how  filled, 

(Sec.  57) 19 

Duties  of  Clerk 19,  22 

Removal  of  Clerk,  (Sec.  61) 20 

Ordinance  Concerning,  59,  60, 104, 105 

Salary  of  Clerk 60 

Deputy  Clerk 60 

PORTERS  AND  RUNNERS— 

To  Present  Card 89 

RAILROADS— 

Ordinance  Concerning  Chicago  & 

Fort  Wayne  Railroad 44 

Ordinance    Concerning   Joliet   & 

Chicago  Railroad 45 

Ordinance  Concerning  Milwaukee 

Railroad 49,  63 

RENDERING  ESTABLISHMENTS. 

See  Nuisances. 

REFORM  SCHOOL— 

EstabHshment  of,  (Sees.  1,  2) 32 

Tax  for  Support  of,  (Sec.  1)...    .  32 

Former  Ordin'ce  legalized  (Sec.  2)  32 

Who  committed  to,  (Sec.  3) 33 

How  discharged  from,  (Sec.  4.), .  33 
Punishment  of  Incorrigible  Boys, 

(Sec.  4) 34 

Boys   bound    to   Apprenticeship, 

(Sec.  5) 34 

State  Reform  School,  (Sec.  6). . . .  35 
Boys  Admitted  from  other  Coun- 
ties, (Sec.  T) ■.  36 

Ordinance  Concerning  Buildings.  57 

RUNNERS.    See  Porters  &  Runners. 

SALES— 

For  Taxes,  when,  (Sec.  51) 17 

Order  to  Sell,  (Sec.  44) 16 

Notices  of  Sale,  (Sec.  46) 16 

How  Conducted,  (Sec.  47) 16 

SALARIES— 

Of  Mayor,  (Sec.  72) 22 

Of  other  OfBcers. 23,  102,  103 


Page. 
SALAnmS— Continued. 
How  Payable,  (Sec.  73) 22 

SCHOOLS  AND  SCHOOL  FUND— 

Provisions  of  Charter 23-24 

Power  to  levy  School  Tax  (Sec.  75)  23 

Tax  of  1856  legahzed,  (Sec.  76). .  23 

Inspectors,  how  appoint'd  (Sec.  77)  23 

Terms  of  Public  Schools 45 

School  District  No.  10 49 

Buildings  in  Districts  8  and  9 57 

SEWERS— 

Ordinance  Concerning 83-86 

Notice   of    Laying  Down  Pipes, 

Sewers,  etc.  (Sec.  1) 83 

Penalty   for   Uncovering   Sewer, 

(Sec.2) 84 

Penalty   for   Connecting    Sewer, 

(Sec.  3) 84 

Penalty   for    Disturbing    Drains, 

(Sec.  4) 84 

Penalty    for    Constructing   Drain 

contrary  to  Instructions,  (Sec. 

5) 84,  85 

Penalty  for  Depositing  Substances 

in,  (Sec.  6) 85 

Penalty  for  refusing  access  to  Pre- 
mises, (Sec.  7) 85 

Penalty    for    Injury    to   Sewers, 

(Sec.  8) 85-86 

SHOOTING  GALLERIES— 

Ordinance  Concerning 43 

SIDEWALKS— 

Articles  placed  upon 70 

Raising  to  Grade 99 

SIGNS— 
Ordinance  Concerning 70 

SMALL  POX— 

Ordinance  Concercing 82 

STREETS  AND  ALLEYS— 

Proocee dings   to  open,  legalized, 

(Sec.  86) 25 

__Obstructions  by  Sewerage,  Water 

Commissioners,  or  Gas  Co. ...     42 

Right  of  Way  to  Chicago  &  Fort 
Wayne  Railroad 45 

Right  of  Way  to  South  Branch 
Canal  Company 47 

Right  of  Way  to  Milwaukee  Rail- 
road  49,  63 

Street  Taxes 64 

Vacation   of    part  of   Polk   and 
Rolker  Streets 87 

Vacation  of  part  of  Carroll  St. . .     88 


INDEX, 


119 


STREETS  &  ALLEYS— Continued. 

Grades  of  West  Division 90 

Name  of  Rolker  chang'd  to  Throop    91 

Proceedings  to  fill  to  Grade 91 

Name  of  Sand  changed  to  St.  Clair  101 
Deposit  of  Ashes  in 9fi 

STOLEN  PROPERTY— 
Delivery  to  Clerk  Pohce  Court,  20-21 

STREET  TAX.     See  Taxes. 

SUPERINTENDENT— 
Ordinance  defining  Duties 76 

SURVEYOR— 

Ordinance  Concerning 95 

May  employ  Assistants 95 

TAXES.     See  Assessments. 

For  Interest  on  Park  Debt  (Sec.  1 2)  30 

For  Schools,  (Sec.  75) 23 

For  Reform  School,  (Sec.  1) 32 

For  Streets 64 

Ordinance  levying  tax  for  1857 . .  92 

TREASURER— 

Powers  and  Duties  by  Charter. .  .9-10 
Deposit  of  Moneys 10,  105 

TREASURY  DEPARTMENT— 

Who  to  constitute 45-49 

Powers  of,  by  Charter 45-49 

VACANCIES— 

City  Collector,  how  filled  (Sec.  29)     11 
Clerk  of  Police  Court,  how  filled, 
(Sec.  57) 19 

VAGRANTS— 

Ordinance  Concerning 106-107 


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VEHICLES— 

May   stand    in    front    of    Public 

Places... 50 

Owners    and    Drivers    to    wear 

Badges 58 

Drivers  at  111.  Central  Depot 102 

VENUE— 

Changes  of,  in  PoUce  Court  (Sec. 
70) 22 

vessels- 
How  to  carry  Anchor 107 

veto- 
How  exercised  by  Mayor  (Sec.  3),       3 

WARDS— 

Division  into  Election  Districts, 

(Seel) 3 

Boundaries  of  Vth  and  Xth,  (Sec. 

88) 26 

Divisions  into  Election  Precincts 

abolished 96 

WARRANT  ON  TREASURY— 

How  Drawn,  (Sec.  19) 9 

WATER  COMMISSIONERS— 

Ordinance  Concerning  Loan 74 

WOOD  STANDS— 

In  West  Division 41 

When  and  by  whom  Occupied. . .     80 

WOODEN  BUILDINGS.     See  Fire 

Limits. 

WOOD  INSPECTORS— 

Ordinance  Concerning 78-81 

Have  Pohce  Powers 81 


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